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<h1>Re: May sane_init fail?</h1>
<b>Oliver Rauch</b> (<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE"><i>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sat, 01 May 1999 20:34:59 +0200</i>
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Ingo Wilken wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; &gt; Anyway. I'm now writing a patch to sane 1.0.1 with my suggested</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; change. I suggest three valid responses from sane_init():</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; SANE_STATUS_GOOD - Success</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; SANE_STATUS_NO_MEM - Ran out of memory</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; SANE_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED - Not supported on this machines current</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; configuration</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Would there be need for more return values?</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; What's the suggested return values for a backend/SANE version mismatch?</i><br>
<i>&gt; I'm currently using SANE_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED (seems logical), but</i><br>
<i>&gt; SANE_STATUS_INVAL could be used too.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; BTW, it seems that almost no backend checks the version number, and most</i><br>
<i>&gt; backends distributed with 1.0.x are listed as version 0.something in the</i><br>
<i>&gt; "supported scanners" webpage - not good.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
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Hi Ingo,<br>
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the frontends do have to chacke the version numbers, a backend is not able to do<br>
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a right test for it.<br>
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xsane does test it and if the backend responds with a sane major version != 1,<br>
xsane aborts with an error message!<br>
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Bye<br>
Oliver<br>
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