Re: Fujitsu fi-4750C Backend Project

From: Mick Barry (mick@objects.com.au)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 14:01:42 PST

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    Frederik Ramm wrote:
    >
    > Hi Tom,
    >
    > I'd love to. But how do we handle things like different allowable
    > resolutions, different maximum page sizes, and so on. It wouldn't be a
    > problem to produce one source code file that, using "#ifdef"s, can
    > produce three or four different drivers, but what options would we
    > have if we were to try producing one single driver. An extra
    > parameter, "--model", maybe - but how would we communicate to the SANE
    > front-ends that certain settings e.g. of the "resolution" parameter
    > are only available if the "model" parameter has been set to something
    > specific? I doubt the current mechanism supports that.
    >

    The f/e negotiates capability with the b/e so this isn't a problem.
    The standard also supports changes in capability during a session.

    mick

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