On Wed, Oct 16, 2002, Bob Lockie <bjlockie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The SANE people don't know. > How is the V4L driver able to detect which USB devices are video devices? > The SANE driver for a USB scanner requires the vendor and product ID as parameters. > > insmod scanner vendor=0x06bd product=0x208f This is a generic driver. It could as easily use the same table the other USB drivers use and not require the command line options. > insmod videodev > insmod ov511 This driver only supports one device so it knows the vendor/product of all of the hardware it is compatible with and sets up the appropriate table with that list. JE
