[sane-devel] Patch to make XSane work with SANE 1.1

[m. allan noah]

how about adding a 1/2 second usleep and an upper bound on the number of tries?

allan

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:44 PM, stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
> Le Tuesday 07 October 2008 10:29:21 Julien BLACHE, vous avez écrit :
>> stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > +#if SANE_CURRENT_MINOR >= 1
>> > +  do
>> > +  {
>> > +    status = sane_start(dev);
>> > +  } while (status == SANE_STATUS_WARMING_UP);
>> > +#else
>>
>> Please, tell me this is not busy-looping on sane_start() ...
>>
>> JB.
>
>        Hello,
>
>        sorry can't tell you that. It is indeed doing busy-looping. While it works
> fine with the pnm backend and the rts8891 which handles warming-up, adding a
> sleep() in the loop would be better. However, this will have to be replaced
> with some dialog box, which is the reason there is a SANE_STATUS_WARMING_UP.
> It is currently a quick fix to make XSane work with SANE 1.1.
>
> Regards,
>        Stef
>
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