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