[sane-devel] Last call for new backends

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:18:26AM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Direct hardware access like ioctl shouldn't be in the backends directly.

I copied the basic access level from the hp3300 driver since the sanei stuff
is not available to standalone programs. I imagine it wouldn't be too much
work to fix, but it hasn't been done.

> What about libieee1284? I have seen some defines for that? Does the
> backend work with parport also? If yes, that'd need some work to only
> use libieee1284 if it's available.

Hmm, ieee1284 is a parport protocol? Well, the scanner has a connector for
it but I would have no idea about the format of the packets. How can you
capture data going over a parallel cable?

> > If someone would have time to integrate it into sane, it would be nice.=
=20
> > Integration would consist in :
> > * port hp5400 Makefile into SANE compilation structure
> > * verify hp5400 API is correct for SANE
> > * support of others transport protocol=20
>=20
> I'll check how much work it is.

The Makefile can't be too bad since it's been included in Debian apparently.

> > I would be very pleased if someone would help us for the integration of=
 the=20
> > hp5400 backend.

As would I.

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