[sane-devel] Linux 2.5.62

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:22:25PM +0100, Stian Jordet wrote:
[I wrote]
> > But it seems to be connecte to /dev/usb/scanner1.
> > 
> > Fix the config files (plustek.conf/epson.conf).
> > 
> I have tried both.

So does it work with /dev/usb/scanner1?

> You have any idea why it want scanner1 in 2.5.x and
> scanner0 in 2.4.x? 

No idea. I can't reproduce that behaviour with 2.5.63. Without devfs
(device file system), it works just fine. With devfs enabled, the
device file is named /dev/usb/scanner48 (because of the minor id).
That's a bug but I don't think it's relevant here. Enabling "dynamic
minors" works with and without devfs.

So do you use devfs and/or dynamic minors? Dynamic minors is in the
USB section, part of usbfs.

If you want to hunt the bug, can you enable debugging in the scanner
driver (drivers/usb/image/scanner.h)? Please show me the output in
syslog. Does sane-find-scanner find the scanner at /dev/usb/scanner1?

> I'm using 2.4.21-pre3, which is working very good.
> But I can try pre4.

If it works, no need to upgrade.

> Hmm. Thanks anyway. Since there is no known issues, it's just my
> setup, I guess.

The allocation of minor ids is different in 2.5.*. So there may be a
bug.

Generally speaking I recommend to use libusb instead of the kernel
scanner driver, at least in 2.5.*. The kernel scanner driver in 2.5.*
may be removed at any time.

Bye,
  Henning