[sane-devel] Current TODO list

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:08:02AM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> Thus spoke Henning Meier-Geinitz
> >   * Make sure that USB backends don't depend on the kernel USB scanner
> >     driver but also work with libusb. The linux kernel scanner driver may be
> >     gone in Linux 2.6.0.
> >     - plustek: will need some work to autodetect all supported scanners
> >     - hp: currently no support for sanei_usb at all
> 
> FYI:
> 
> The front page of the web site says this is fixed:
> 
>    "USB scanner should work on all
>     systems supported by libusb now."

Well, "should". When we wrote the NEWS file for 1.0.9, we didn't know
that the hp backend doesn't use sanei_usb.

The plustek backend can use libusb, but the scanners are not detected
automatically.

Thanks for mentioning.

Bye,
  Henning