diff -up sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/epjitsu.c.uninitialized sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/epjitsu.c
--- sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/epjitsu.c.uninitialized	2007-12-30 02:31:13.000000000 +0100
+++ sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/epjitsu.c	2008-02-14 19:31:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ sane_init (SANE_Int * version_code, SANE
     struct scanner *dev;
     char line[PATH_MAX];
     const char *lp;
-    size_t len;
   
     authorize = authorize;        /* get rid of compiler warning */
   
@@ -233,17 +232,12 @@ sane_init (SANE_Int * version_code, SANE
   
         while (sanei_config_read (line, PATH_MAX, fp)) {
       
+            lp = line;
+
             /* ignore comments */
-            if (line[0] == '#')
+            if (*lp == '#')
                 continue;
       
-            /* delete newline characters at end */
-            len = strlen (line);
-            if (line[len - 1] == '\n')
-                line[--len] = '\0';
-      
-            lp = sanei_config_skip_whitespace (line);
-      
             /* skip empty lines */
             if (*lp == 0)
                 continue;
diff -up sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/fujitsu.c.uninitialized sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/fujitsu.c
--- sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/fujitsu.c.uninitialized	2008-01-23 02:21:21.000000000 +0100
+++ sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/fujitsu.c	2008-02-14 19:31:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -480,7 +480,6 @@ find_scanners ()
   struct fujitsu *dev;
   char line[PATH_MAX];
   const char *lp;
-  size_t len;
   FILE *fp;
   int num_devices=0;
   int i=0;
@@ -498,17 +497,12 @@ find_scanners ()
 
       while (sanei_config_read (line, PATH_MAX, fp)) {
     
+          lp = line;
+    
           /* ignore comments */
-          if (line[0] == '#')
+          if (*lp == '#')
             continue;
     
-          /* delete newline characters at end */
-          len = strlen (line);
-          if (line[len - 1] == '\n')
-            line[--len] = '\0';
-    
-          lp = sanei_config_skip_whitespace (line);
-    
           /* skip empty lines */
           if (*lp == 0)
             continue;
diff -up sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/cardscan.c.uninitialized sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/cardscan.c
--- sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/cardscan.c.uninitialized	2007-10-26 16:56:37.000000000 +0200
+++ sane-backends-1.0.19/backend/cardscan.c	2008-02-14 19:31:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ sane_get_devices (const SANE_Device *** 
     struct scanner *dev;
     char line[PATH_MAX];
     const char *lp;
-    size_t len;
     FILE *fp;
     int num_devices=0;
     int i=0;
@@ -337,17 +336,12 @@ sane_get_devices (const SANE_Device *** 
   
         while (sanei_config_read (line, PATH_MAX, fp)) {
       
+            lp = line;
+
             /* ignore comments */
-            if (line[0] == '#')
+            if (*lp == '#')
                 continue;
       
-            /* delete newline characters at end */
-            len = strlen (line);
-            if (line[len - 1] == '\n')
-                line[--len] = '\0';
-      
-            lp = sanei_config_skip_whitespace (line);
-      
             /* skip empty lines */
             if (*lp == 0)
                 continue;