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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Nick Lamb (<A HREF="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk?Subject=Re:%20Installation%20and%20man%20page%20of%20find-scanner&In-Reply-To=&lt;20001231120503.A11640@ecs.soton.ac.uk&gt;"><EM>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</EM></A>)<BR>
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:19AM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote:
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<EM>&gt; when we rename it we sould add a &quot;scsi&quot;, something like:
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<EM>&gt; sane-find-scsi-scanner
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<P>I don't think it's essential that find-scanner is a SCSI tool, this is
<BR>
just a coincidence. When it was written the majority of supported
<BR>
hardware was SCSI, and &quot;discovery&quot; of PP devices was hard.
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<P>sane-find-scanner should _aim_ to detect most common hardware such as
<BR>
USB scanners (I went shopping with my parents at the ~$100 pricemark
<BR>
this Christmas and EVERY scanner was USB) and renaming it because of
<BR>
the features it has today seems short-sighted.
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<P>On Linux for example, /proc/bus/usb/devices contains a list of stuff
<BR>
attached to the USB bus. Even though scanners apparently don't belong
<BR>
to a fixed class and may use several drivers, we can eliminate a lot
<BR>
of possibilities by parsing this list. If the user doesn't _have_
<BR>
/proc/bus/usb we can remind her to install USB support (cf SCSI generic)
<BR>
<P>I don't know how the list feels about writing explicit detection for
<BR>
vendor/product IDs because obviously that's a lot of maintenance work
<BR>
and if someone from the USB camp wants to say that my suggestion is
<BR>
unworkable that's fair - they know this ground better than I do.
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<P>Otherwise this sounds like a good project for someone new to SANE but
<BR>
with a bunch of USB hardware kicking around. The &quot;sane-find-scanner&quot;
<BR>
rename still sounds good to me.
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<P>Nick.
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