Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> My scanner (Epson) died when moving to the
> libusb stuff. That is annoying, but not much different from the
> situation around major Windows upgrades. Other than that, I can't recall
> I ever had to discontinue using something because the developer stopped.

I did for a long time patch my kernel source to use the old module for
my scanner, not for my scanner didn't work with libusb, but for it was a
lot easier with setting up privileges when it came to the module.

I didn't have to make any changes in the driver code itself, just add
the files and see to that the option appeared in the menuconfig.

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//Aho