uscanner & sane

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> I am looking into fixing sane-backends and see that the uscanner driver
> is not needed at all. I wonder if we should follow Linux on this and
> remove it in favour of libusb? uscanner is just a simple wrapper around
> a fifo anyway, it has no logic.

libusb also allows the detection of scanner button presses which don't 
make it through uscanner.  Having said that, for some reason I can't 
recall I switched back to uscanner.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA