On November 26, 2002 17:52, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:33:13PM -0500, Fran=E7ois Desloges wrote: > > > I'm not a hotplug expert but I thing the usb.agent script jsut does= n't > > > know anything about the modules it loads. As far as I know the vend= or=3D > > > product=3D options aren't used by every module so the usb,agent wou= ld > > > need to make a special exception for scanner. > > > > > > Bye, > > > Henning > > > > That would be odd, you could not plug 2 scanners with different > > vendor/product IDS then, since there would be no way to tell the modu= le ? > > > > Why then bother creating a ID-module relation db like the *map ? > > If the maintainer of the USB scanner module would be faster in adding > additional ids to the kernel scanner driver, that wouldn't be a > problem ;-) > > But you are right, you can only use one pair of vendor/product ids > with the scanner driver. > > So in the case of more than one scanners that are not in the driver > yet, editing scanner.h and recompiling the kernel is necessary.
Why not send such patch to lkml directly, this seems a trivial patch enou= gh=20 for Linus to apply it directly! FD > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
