[sane-devel] sanei_config_attach_matching_devices() for USB

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:28:25PM +0000, Major A wrote:
> That's true, unfortunately, as I just found out. In that case, my only
> suggestion is to have the scanner kernel module create a /proc entry
> that shows all recognized scanners, with their filenames. This of
> course only works with devfs, because without devfs the module only
> knows major/minor numbers, not which device files correspond to these.

Can you explain why the current approach doesn't work with devfs? If
the files /dev/usb/scanner etc. doesn't exist we could also use other
names. But maybe I don't understand the problem because I haven't ever
used devfs :-)

Bye,
  Henning