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

[stef]

Le Tuesday 07 October 2008 21:51:10 m. allan noah, vous avez écrit :
> 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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	A definitive patch will surely be like this, along with a user feedback 
trough a GUI.

Regards,
	Stef