[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

[m. allan noah]

we can stick with levels, if we make them more consistent. I
personally am a fan of bitmasks,  because of the flexibility, but you
are correct that most users will have trouble doing the bitwise AND :)

allan

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Frank Zago <sane at zago.net> wrote:
>
>  > 6. Common debugging bitmask:
>  >
>  > 1 major errors
>  > 2 minor errors
>  > 4 function start/stop msgs
>  > 8 function detail msg
>  > 16 SANE_OPTION processing msgs
>  > 32 calibration msgs
>  > 64 outgoing command dump
>  > 128 incoming data dump
>  >
>  > help me fix that...
>  >
>
> Should these need to be bitmasks ? I think most backends are using
>  levels instead. Bitmasks are more complicated to use for a normal user,
>  while a level is pretty simple.
>
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