[sane-devel] Current TODO list

Major A andras@users.sourceforge.net
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:16:59 +0000


> [...]
> > Considering all this, it might be better to define and implement a new
> > interface for sanei_scsi, which avoids these problems, and to write
> > wrapper functions for the current interface. This would result too in a
> > "more common" behaviour of the current interface across different
> > platforms, while the backend authors have also the choice to use a
> > cleaner interface. 
> 
> Sounds promising but I'm not sure if it's worth it considering that most new
> scanners are USB.

Bear in mind that most high(er)-end scanners use IEEE1394 for speed,
which (via SBP-2) is again essentially SCSI. Since USB 2.0 is not
going to take off very quickly, I wouldn't expect this to change in
the next two or three years to come.

  Andras

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