Re: Please remove hpusbscsi Was: [sane-devel] HP 7450C, hpusbscsi, permissions in Fedora Core 3

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net>]

I have reported this to our Mandrakesoft kernel guys, so next 
Mandrakelinux version (10.2) should not have this problem any more.

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12891

For now, simply remove or rename the module on your system.

    Till


Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we should remove hpusbscsi from the Kernel. It is long obsolete and very 
> unstable. I can send a patch for 2.4 and 2.6 (if needed) ;-)
> 
> George Garvey wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:11:30PM -0800, Thomas Frayne wrote:
> 
> 
> ...
> 
>>    As far as I know, Rene has made it pretty clear he doesn't want to
>> use hpusbscsi with the avision driver. He prefers libusb.
> 
> 
> Yes. Hpusbscsi has many drawbacks. The major ones are:
> 
>  - does not work with new scanners (that are designed for USB 2.0)
>  - it is highly instable (e.g. during an i/o error it locks up
>    quite easily and leaves the (usb sub-)system in a state that
>    needs a reboot ...
> 
> The later problem made me add the user-space i/o code to the 
> SANE/Avision backend, because I had to reboot my system every 5 minutes 
> during development ...
> 
> Yours,
>