[sane-devel] 'scanimage -L' fails first time with modular SCSI drivers
Henning Meier-Geinitz
henning at meier-geinitz.de
Fri Mar 1 13:38:34 GMT 2002
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
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