[sane-devel] recommendation needed

[m. allan noah]

is the existing sanei_udp code of any use to your driver?

allan

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Louis Lagendijk
<louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> hi,
> I am looking for some recommendation on the following:
>
> Canon uses a proprietary protocol for communication to it's networked
> multi-functional devices, called bjnp (ports 8611 - 8614) where port
> 8612 (UDP and TCP) is used for scanning. I have done some reverse
> engineering based on a packet dump from the Windows drivers and
> developed a protocol implementation for the pixma backend. The protocol
> pretty much carries the usb packets over IP.
>
> I have two options for releasing the code in Sane:
> 1) as a new sanei option.
> 2) as part of the Pixma backend
>
> I am looking for recommendations from the community for what is the
> preferred option. On one hand one could argue that it should be part of
> the pixma backend as the protocol is Canon specific.
>
> The protocol number have however been officially allocated by IANA, so
> one could argue that moving it to sanei is the way to go.
>
> So far, I have modelled the interface after the sanei USB interface,
> where I replaced the usb in the names by bjnp.
>
> So my question:
> What is the preferred way forward: include as part of the pixma backend
> or as part of sanei?
>
> best regards, Louis
>
>
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