[sane-devel] Description file, Epson, and wildcards

[Chris Bagwell]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen
<olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:

>> Yes, they have a patch for "Expression800" in addition.  My assumption
>> is it would be an issue with any SCSI-only EPSON scanner?  Or is there
>> a small subset of names all models use?
>
> Hadn't heard about that one, I'll add that to epkowa.desc as well then.
>  Assume it is for the Expression 800 only and not for its Japanese
> cousin the GT-9600.

Sorry for not including that. The report was for "Expression 800"
entry.  The following is bug report if interested.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456656

> To be honest, I don't know what the various EPSON scanners with a SCSI
> interface report.  Apparently, most advertise themselves as a "scanner"
> device so no special handling should be required.  Some models however
> think that they are "processors" and need the :scsi entry.  What names
> these models report, I don't know, so I will have to rely on whatever
> people report.
>
>>>> Mostly, the epson2.desc values are driven by epkowa developers from
>>>> their epkowa.desc.  Would it be possible for epkowa developers to
>>>> provide a ":scsi" line for all SCSI devices?
>>> Yes.  No promises on a release time line but we could send a diff to the
>>> list and ask someone with the necessary privileges to commit.
>>
>> My understanding is that epson2.desc updates are automated based on
>> epkowa.desc updates.
>
> As m. allen noah also pointed out, that's living life dangerously.

If epkowa.desc can include those ":scsi" that are known, it would be
great.  Since the epkowa.desc is used in sane-backend build process,
fedora would get your ":scsi" fixes when users install sane-backends
and these reports would reduce some... maybe helping isane out in the
process.

The epson2.desc entries may need further discussion but it sounds like
my initial wish of removing a downstream patch can be addressed
sometime in near future via a epkowa.desc update.

Chris