[sane-devel] Re: [PATCH] generate hal fdi file

[David Zeuthen]

Hi again,

Is it possible anyone can apply / comment on this? Thanks!

     David

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 20:27 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 20:22 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> And since my original message is being held for being too big, here's
> the full text. Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > There's been various threads about this on both this and the hal list
> > and SUSE got something in their SRPM that does something vaugely
> > similar. Basically the attached patch generates a hal fdi file for
> > identifying the devices that the userspace drivers in the sane-backends
> > package can drive. This is useful for a number of things
> > 
> >  - it's easy to discover supported scanners through HAL
> > 
> >  - distros can use the new ACL framework in HAL to manage permissions
> >    (which in particular is useful for fast-user-switching and, in the
> >     future, things like multi-seat) and migrate from udev-based
> >    permission settings schemes
> > 
> > The generated file tools/hal/10-libsane.fdi should be installed
> > into /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/. That's something that
> > vendors want to do in the %install part of the RPM or similar.
> > 
> > Now, on my Fedora system I see that hplip is also providing a libsane
> > backend. My next mission is to make a patch for them as well (plus fix
> > up the fact that any user, even remote, can use the scanner which some
> > people might consider a security bug). That's going to be, uh, well, fun
> > since it involves parsing /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat. Btw,
> > does anyone know why HP just didn't submit patches to this project? The
> > whole hplip thing reminds me a bit of Windows....
> > 
> > Anyway, thanks for considering this patch!
> > 
> >      David
> > 
> > 
> 
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