[sane-devel] CanoScan N650U

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM -0500, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> I'm not really clear on how SANE interacts with the kernel modules 
> usbcore, usb-uhci and scanner. Does SANE replace scanner?

No. SANE is user-space. Most USB backends access device files like
/dev/usb/scanner0 which are provided by the kernel scanner driver. The
kernel scanner driver itsself only provides the ability to access the
scanner. The functinality to actually scan must be in the SANE
backend.

Bye,
  Henning