On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Miod Vallat wrote: > > But is there any reason to keep these devices in uscanner? To my > > knowledge, sane is the only tool to access such devices. Is there > > other software that need uscanner? > > > > And more generally, is there any reason to keep uscanner? > > According to the manpage, it was written to provide a linux-compatible > scanner device. If nowadays' scanning applications are perfectly happy > with ugen(4), then I see no point in keeping uscanner(4). Unless I > misunderstood things...
Well, I don't own many scanners. All I can say is that uscanner is deprecated in linux, they now use libusb. I also do so without issue but I cannot guess it'll be the same for all scanners around. The expected scenario is that all usb scanners *should* work with libusb where only some will also work also uscanner. This calls for testing from people who own such hardware. Personally I'd be happy to see uscanner move away, I wouldn't have to config(8) my kernel all the time. -- Antoine
