General Question

[Martin Owens]

Funny enough I had the same idea a while back, but wouldn't that
involve guten-print or are you dealing with something else?

My main concern is that I'm investigating sane/hal integration, but
unfortunately there is no way to tell two scanners apart that have the
same manufacturer and model id but require different firmware. this
then requires user input to select the correct model, unfortunately
without a serial the computer won't be able to safely remember this
setting.

On 12/19/06, Artem Kachitchkine <Artem.Kachitchkin at sun.com> wrote:
> Martin Owens wrote:
> > I see, that is rather unfortunate
>
> Yes. For storage devices, transition to EFI/GPT helps a bit, as it
> stores an on-device GUID for each partition. I think the best strategy
> is to use serial whenever possible for settings caching, but if serial
> is not provided, don't use caching (in OpenSolaris we're doing this for
> printer autoconf
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/projects/Presto/)
>
> -Artem.
>