[sane-devel] patch for sane-desc.c / support for descfiles / modifications

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Hi Julien,
> Guarding the defines will just hide bugs if that name is used for
> something else by one of the headers included. Given that it's a
ok. Can live with that. It still works if you forcibly overrun, so people can 
decide how to proceed here.

The missing support for scsi-scanners generically promoting themselves 
as "scanners" is intentional. _THIS_ one should really go into the 
hal-package, it shouldn't settle within sane because - well, if you know it 
is a scanner, it's a scanner and hal ought to know what to do about it. No 
job for sane here.

In contrast, players that hide their devices behind strange 
names "processor" - this could be a dryer, a washing machine as well, isn't 
it - are not known per se to hal. And I do not think it is a good idea to 
have each and every distribution reinvent the wheel to create some script 
magic to create the hal-database as is created right now.

So, here we go. I did a little more fine-tuning with regard to the printout of 
the hal-entries and will end up with a patch based on today's dayly snapshot 
when I'll be done.

Take care



Dieter

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-----------------------------------------------------------Am Montag, 12. 
Januar 2009 20:27:28 schrieb Julien BLACHE:
> Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > first of all: many thanks that you took the burden and scan my output and
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