Thanks for the patch. I must confess I don't quite understand the code. If the caller provides a device name which does not exactly exist, I think the backend should just return an error, instead of trying to find a similarly named device. There is no guarantee that device names will have a consistent format on all systems. Perhaps the author will comment.
allan On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Warren Turkal <wt at penguintechs.org> wrote: > I have a small patch that works around a bug in the xerox_mfp driver. > It is attached. > > The bug boils down to the following. The devname generated by the > sanei code is "libusb" instead of "usb". I think that this may stop > the xerox_mfp backend from working on any system using libusb to talk > to a USB scanner. I feel that this workaround patch may represent the > wrong solution, but it does work and illustrate the problem. If it is > a proper solution, feel free to apply under the normal project license > (GPL+Sane exception). > > Also, I would like to report that the Samsung SCX-4623FW (usb ids: > 0x04e8 0x3440) seems to work as well as sane can. With the attached > patch, this all-in-one printer can be used with the USB as well as the > network connections. Not bad for a <$150 printer. > > As an aside, this printer is also supported by generic PCL drivers for > CUPS. This device is the only all-in-one laser printer that I have > found that is fully supported by drivers that are fully open and whose > SANE drivers are maintained by the SANE project. The weird thing is > that Samsung has proprietary drivers for download from their site. I > am not sure why they wouldn't just do some touch ups to the already > open drivers. > > Thanks, > wt > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
