On 5/8/08, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote: > Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> writes: > > > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> Now that distros have gotten udev under control, and users are > >> learning to modify it, we have seen cases where a person made their > >> scanner show up as /dev/scanner. This causes sanei_usb to try and talk > >> to it like it uses the old kernel scanner module. how about we remove > >> that code finally? > > > > It's well past time. 2.6.3 is no longer history, it's archeology > > now... :) > > > Hmm, just having read those comments about portability and old, never > updated systems, I find this a bit contradictory. I'm personally all > in favour to dump scanner.o support but what about those poor embedded > system developers that have to get something to work on, say, RH 7.1?
Julien seems to give no quarter to old Linux, but has a soft spot for old Unix :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
