[sane-devel] This is HOT (-plug related)

[François Desloges]

On November 26, 2002 17:52, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:33:13PM -0500, François Desloges wrote:
> > > I'm not a hotplug expert but I thing the usb.agent script jsut does=
n't
> > > know anything about the modules it loads. As far as I know the vend=
or=
> > > product= options aren't used by every module so the usb,agent wou=
ld
> > > need to make a special exception for scanner.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > >   Henning
> >
> > That would be odd, you could not plug 2 scanners with different
> > vendor/product IDS then, since there would be no way to tell the modu=
le ?
> >
> > Why then bother creating a ID-module relation db like the *map ?
>
> If the maintainer of the USB scanner module would be faster in adding
> additional ids to the kernel scanner driver, that wouldn't be a
> problem ;-)
>
> But you are right, you can only use one pair of vendor/product ids
> with the scanner driver.
>
> So in the case of more than one scanners that are not in the driver
> yet, editing scanner.h and recompiling the kernel is necessary.

Why not send such patch to lkml directly, this seems a trivial patch enough 
for Linus to apply it directly!

FD

> Bye,
>   Henning
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