Re: USB scanners and PR 50340

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) writes:

>I tried to get the non-libusb (i.e. uscanner0) version to work with latest
>sane-backends, but failed.

Does it work in FreeBSD (with /dev/usb/scanner0) ?

>Instead we should improve our device ownership handling in a  more
>general way. Jared suggested dynamic groups (i.e. the kernel magically
>adding the owner of /dev/console to a special group "consoleuser" or
>something similar), but there are other alternatives.

That's a can of worms. You don't even know what a particular ugen*
device is until you opened and queried it.

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