I'm ok with breaking code freeze if you want On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 2:41 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 2023-02-04 10:38, Karl Weber wrote: > > Hi Ralf, > > > > On Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:06:41 CET Ralph Little wrote: > >> The condition on SANE_OPTION_IS_SETTABLE(opt->cap) has been removed in > >> version > >>> 1.1.1 and this causes the problem. > >> I'm a bit confused by this comment. I thought that your issue was caused > >> by the backend sending NULL. > >> Which problem do you believe this causes? Or are you saying that the > >> NULL options issue is revealed by this change? That is certainly > possible. > > Yes, you may also say that the NULL options issue has been revealed by > this > > change. I didn't know, why this check has been removed and I don't know > why it > > had been there beforehand. I am really new to sane! I started to look at > the > > code two days ago. Before I was only an ignorant user of scanimage. So > please > > excuse me. > > > > But irrespective of the wording, are you going to do something about it? > Or > > where would be the right place to fix this problem? Currently I have no > idea, > > whether hplip-sane is open source and what the chances would be, to get > a fix > > in there, if this would be the right place for a fix. I don't even know, > > whether it is part of the SANE API specification, that there must not be > NULL > > options. > I suspect that the hpaio backend is doing something improper. However, > we must deal with it somehow. > I will do a fix. > > Cheers, > Ralph > >