diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b17cd805..fd21bd697 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-02-28  Julien Blache <jb@jblache.org>
+	* tools/hotplug-ng/libsane.hotplug: replace \t by [[:space:]] when
+	grepping for the device in the db file.
+
 2005-02-21  Julien Blache <jb@jblache.org>
 	* tools/hotplug-ng: added new hotplug/hotplug-ng hook, with
 	scripts and documentation.
diff --git a/tools/hotplug-ng/libsane.hotplug b/tools/hotplug-ng/libsane.hotplug
index 7310c1e73..ac38e46cb 100755
--- a/tools/hotplug-ng/libsane.hotplug
+++ b/tools/hotplug-ng/libsane.hotplug
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ fi
 DEVVID=$(printf %4s $(echo $PRODUCT | cut -d'/' -f1) | tr ' ' 0)
 DEVPID=$(printf %4s $(echo $PRODUCT | cut -d'/' -f2) | tr ' ' 0)
 
-DEVCONF=$(grep -i ^0x$DEVVID\t0x$DEVPID /etc/sane.d/hotplug/*.db 2> /dev/null)
+DEVCONF=$(grep -i ^0x$DEVVID[[:space:]]0x$DEVPID /etc/sane.d/hotplug/*.db 2> /dev/null)
 
 if [ $? != 0 ]; then
     exit 0