Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:28:59PM +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote: > The problem is that the installer usually writes device filenames and they can > change. Consider scanner1 on /dev/usb/scanner0 and scanner 2 on > /dev/usb/scanner1. The installer writes the filenames into the config files. > Now > you remove scanner1. That makes the kernel immediately move scanner2 to > /dev/usb/scanner0! That is the real problem. The device file changes. That is > why it was decided only to support one USB scanner with the install tool. Note > that you can handle one USB and more SCSI scanner, and I think that is more > usual case having the old SCSI scanner and bought a new cool USB scanner ;).
Ok, this sounds reasonable. Some backends support "usb vendor product" which avoids these problems. However, this won't work with older Linux kernels or non-Linux operating systems. Bye, Henning
