[sane-devel] How to handle devices with multiple USB bulk-in endpoints

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

My KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 1690mf has one bulk-out endpoint and unfortunately 
two bulk-in endpoints (#4 and #5, where it only uses #5 for all 
communication). SANE on the other hand chooses to only use the first bulk-in 
endpoint (i.e. #4 in my case), which will not work.

There were some discussions a while ago to make that more configurable (i.e. 
make it work with such devices), but no code went in and no concrete 
proposals/suggestions how it should be done were made. In particular, see:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-March/024266.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2007-July/019608.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-September/017722.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-December/018173.html


So, since I need this functionality to get the magicolor 1690mf working with 
the magicolor backend, I'll have to tackle that problem. 

What would you think is the best approach to letting sanei_usb_open select 
which of the endpoints to use?

Cheers,
Reinhold

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