[sane-devel] Disable unsupported devices in udev libsane.rules?

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Thu Jan 29 15:27:03 UTC 2009


Hello,

I like to suggest to disable those entries in the
udev rules file which belong to unsupported devices
(at least for devices which are no "usual" scanners).


For background information see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439193
"fingerprint reader gets udev/HAL settings for scanners"

For the particular device, see
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=&model=&bus=any&v=08ff&p=2580

For me it seems to be wrong to have "known but unsupported" devices
listed in the libsane.rules file because it seems not to make sense
to set owner, group, and permissions for devices which are not
supported by SANE which would even cause conflicts if such a
device is supported by whatever other software.


If you disable "unsupported" entries in the udev rules file
note that there can be a "unsupported" entry for one backend
for a model which is actually supported by another backend, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439193#c6


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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