[sane-devel] 'scanimage -L' fails first time with modular SCSI drivers

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:03:30AM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote:
> We could put the routines in a dummy backend "sane-load-scsi"
> that does nothing than touching a /dev/sg* device until
> it was able to open one. This device should be listed as last
> backend (if I remember right the list is called backwards).
> 
> This way it would be simple to disable it and it is called only once
> when a frontend is opened.
> 
> (It also could be included in sane-dll).

Both is possible. But I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. When
someone wants to use automatic loading AND /dev/sg0 is not readable I
think he can also use the /dev/scanner link.

Bye,
  Henning