[sane-devel] patch for sane-desc.c / support for descfiles / modifications

[Julien BLACHE]

"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

>>> +  printf ("# anything with device-id \"6\" in the SCSI-system is a scanner.\n");

>> There's no way generic rules like that are going in, because it's a
>> given that they'll end up breaking something on users' systems down
>> the road.
>
> Julien- I think I have to side with Dieter at least on the device type
> 6 being always allowed. We don't know the exact vendor or model
> strings for any scsi device in the .desc files. Many times, the

It's OK for type 0x6, indeed. I was confused by the comment which
improperly used "device-id" which has another meaning in SCSI jargon
and made me go "WTF?".

> backends don't even know. I'm indifferent toward the 'processor'
> models, since there are so few and it should be possible to get a list
> of those.

Type 0x3 can't get a generic rule, we don't know what else could be
connected to the system advertising this device type; this would open
a security hole.

And the whole point of this exercise was to get a list of such devices
to tell HAL to treat them as scanners, so I think we're good with the
updated patch I posted.

JB.

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