Scanner infrastructure in freedesktop

[Donald Straney]

> Hmm, i do not like the idea of using SANE directly. You will have to
> configure the device and pass the handle to the plugin. Also you'll have
> to monitor progress. I don't know much about gstreamer, but beware of
> misusing gstreamer.

Maybe we're talking about different things?  Anyways, direct output to
a file (or even better, shared memory) would also be fine.  I
definitely agree that using the UDI to address devices would be the
best way.

Donald Straney