[sane-devel] This is HOT (-plug related)

[François Desloges]

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:03:55AM +0100, Michael Herder wrote:
> > Btw, why do I need (see 2 and 2.1) an entry in modules.conf? Shouldn't the 
> > module get modprobed with the vid/pid from usb.handmap in this case?
> 
> I'm not a hotplug expert but I thing the usb.agent script jsut doesn't
> know anything about the modules it loads. As far as I know the vendor=
> product= options aren't used by every module so the usb,agent would
> need to make a special exception for scanner.
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning

That would be odd, you could not plug 2 scanners with different vendor/product 
IDS then, since there would be no way to tell the module ?

Why then bother creating a ID-module relation db like the *map ?

FD