[sane-devel] [RFC] SANE 1.1.0 Remove linux kernel scanner.o support

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 14:52:05 Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 08:28:14 -0400
> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now that distros have gotten udev under control, and users are
> > learning to modify it, we have seen cases where a person made their
> > scanner show up as /dev/scanner. This causes sanei_usb to try and talk
> > to it like it uses the old kernel scanner module. how about we remove
> > that code finally?
> 
>  agreed 100%.
> 
>  while we are there.. there is plustek-pp_ptdrv.c that
>  even has an embedded kernel driver ... 

so what? The code ist also able to run completely in user-mode!

- Gerhard