[sane-devel] sane_get_devices() questions

[m. allan noah]

2009/6/1 Kåre Särs <kare.sars at iki.fi>:
> On Monday 01 June 2009 00:58:41 m. allan noah wrote:
>> there was a bug in sanei_usb which prevented sane from discovering
>> newly added scanners. This was fixed in 1.0.20. Unfortunately, some
>> backends only ask the system for a list of scanners during
>> sane_init(). I fixed mine, but I bet other backends are still broken
>> in this regard. Which backend/scanner is this?
>>
>
> libsane 1.0.19-23ubuntu7 and  Epson Stylus RX500 (epson).
>
> I did also enable/disable the test backend in dll.conf, with the same result.
>
> I'll try it again with 1.0.20 as the situation should be better there (as Olaf
> mentioned), but I guess I will work around it, by calling sane_exit/sane_init
> if sane_open hasn't been called yet.

Olaf indicated that he thought epson backend was still broken. I dont
know about it's replacement (epson2).

> What can be done to fix the underlying problem? Do you see it as a problem that
> will go away with time, or should I be prepared to keep the workaround
> indefinitely? Most frontends only scan for scanners at startup.

I would expect this to be fixed before the next release of sane, which
I intend to do more frequently than we have lately. Volunteers welcome
:)

allan
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