Re: [2.6 patch] remove USB_SCANNER

Gene Heskett
2004-02-06T01:15:40Z

On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:20, Azog wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 17:14, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:31:36AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> > If not, please apply the patch below plus do a
>> > rm drivers/usb/image/scanner.{c,h}
>>
>> I've applied this patch, and removed the driver from the kernel.
>
>(sigh) Just last night I had to reboot into 2.4 to use my new USB
>scanner.
>
>I tried for a while to get it working under 2.6. I'm not exactly a
>beginner at this stuff either.
>
>With 2.4 it took less than 30 seconds and worked perfectly,
> following the SANE documentation instructions. My user space is
> Fedora Core 1 with all available updates.
>
>So, what are you all using / recommending for user space
> configuration and control of a USB scanner under 2.6?
>
>http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt doesn't say
> a word about USB scanners, and I havn't seen the issue mentioned
> anywhere else either.
>
I dunno what the problem might be on your mobo, but here, the latest
version of libusb (1.7 I believe) "just works" with virtually any 2.6
kernel so far. You may want to turn on the verbose debugging in
your .config file, rebuild and reboot. It might be educational.

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