ChangeSet 1.1520, 2003/12/09 09:42:34-08:00, trini@kernel.crashing.org [PATCH] USB: mark the scanner driver as obsolete On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:21:58AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Can't you use xsane without the scanner kernel driver? I thought the > latest versions used libusb/usbfs to talk directly to the hardware. > Because of this, the USB scanner driver is marked to be removed from the > kernel sometime in the near future. After a bit of mucking around (and possibly finding a bug with debian's libusb/xsane/hotplug interaction, nothing seems to run /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner and thus only root can scan, anyone whose got this working please let me know), the problem does not exist if I only use libusb xsane. How about the following: drivers/usb/image/Kconfig | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/image/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/image/Kconfig --- a/drivers/usb/image/Kconfig Wed Dec 10 16:47:34 2003 +++ b/drivers/usb/image/Kconfig Wed Dec 10 16:47:34 2003 @@ -18,12 +18,14 @@ module will be called mdc800. config USB_SCANNER - tristate "USB Scanner support" + tristate "USB Scanner support (OBSOLETE)" depends on USB help Say Y here if you want to connect a USB scanner to your computer's USB port. Please read for more information. + + This driver has been obsoleted by support via libusb. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called scanner.