Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:31:27 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net>
Cc: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>, George Garvey <tmwg-sane@inxservices.com>,
       sane-devel <sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oliver@neukum.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Please remove hpusbscsi Was: [sane-devel] HP 7450C, hpusbscsi, permissions in Fedora Core 3
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I would rather prefer leaving it in the tree marked as broken than
completly removing the source, for 2.4 at least?

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:48:10PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 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,
> >
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