Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:37:46PM -0700, nathan rutman wrote: > > This scanner, along with the HP3300 and probably others, requires access > > to usb control packets. The simplest way to do this is to use dedicated > > ioctls within the kernel scanner.c. I have tried to do this in a > > generic way; it would be nice if Those In Charge of scanner.c could take > > a look and approve the changes -- I don't really know the right way to get > > things added to the kernel code, or grant real ioctl numbers. > > The current code of scanner.c already contains a generic way to use > control messages. At least it looks like that, I haven't tested it. > This code is in Linux 2.4.13. I have already added a point to the TODO > list to add a function sanei_usb_write_control (or similar). > > Please send a patch for sanei_usb.c (and .h). We can commit it to CVS > after the release of SANE 1.0.6.
Sorry if I sound blunt, but what is the use of the sanei_usb.h functions? Currently it looks like they are simply wrappers around the functions of the scanner.c kernel module. If it is because of platform specific issues, then what about libusb? Bertrik
