[sane-devel] HAL and scanners.

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Étienne Bersac <bersace03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  First of all, i have to apologize for being away from computer since few
>  days. This was easter days. Happy easter days :D
>
>  About proprietary backends. They have to support SANE, but SANE has not
>  to support those backends. Actually, as Allan said, nothing will be
>  break. And it's up to the proprietary backend to provide its own HAL
>  callout.
>
>  The discussion is not about patching e.g. XSane to use HAL, but rather
>  to allow parallel unified device naming in SANE backends. This will
>  allow a HAL callout to compute mostly working SANE device name in order
>  HAL addon to open a device on plug and monitor its sensors, and much
>  more.

you mentioned HAL working on freebsd? what do sane's default device
names look like on that platform?

allan
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