[sane-devel] As instructed by /etc/udev/rules.d/libsane.rules

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Nov 17 08:42 m. allan noah wrote (shortened):
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
>> Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> What the heck has udev libsane.rules to do
>>> with a particular kernel minor version number?
>>
>> That was a change in the USB layer in the kernel that needed a
>> new/modified udev rule to create the device nodes.
>>
>> Now remember that the same people that brought you that unstable,
>> ever-changing, ever-breaking USB stack are the same people who started
>> and led udev for a while. Oh, and that little thing called
>> "stable-api-nonsense.txt", too.
>
> While all of this may be true, it does not answer the original
> question- If the distro is already producing a modified version of our
> tool to turn .desc files into whatever format is required,

I think it answers the even the base of the original question:

Regardless who tries to tame the udev monster, he is lost
because nobody at userspace can tame the udev beast
because it can change randomly at any time.


Assume a user updates his kernel and randomly udev related
stuff therein had changed.

What should one do then?

Provide our sane-backends package with a nice RPM requirement
for a particular set of kernel versions so that it
can no longer be installed at all only because of its
special kernel/udev dependency, compare
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438867#c55

Or should I foster and nourish a nice zoo of various
sane-backends packages (how should I name them all?)
each for another set of kernel versions?

No.

I just tell the user to run saned as root on localhost plus
the net meta backend to get udev/HAL mess out of sight.
Intentionally it is a very easy to be set up
by the YaST scanner module ;-)


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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