<div dir="auto">I'm ok with breaking code freeze if you want </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 2:41 PM Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com">skelband@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On 2023-02-04 10:38, Karl Weber wrote:<br>
> Hi Ralf,<br>
><br>
> On Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:06:41 CET Ralph Little wrote:<br>
>> The condition on SANE_OPTION_IS_SETTABLE(opt->cap) has been removed in<br>
>> version<br>
>>> 1.1.1 and this causes the problem.<br>
>> I'm a bit confused by this comment. I thought that your issue was caused<br>
>> by the backend sending NULL.<br>
>> Which problem do you believe this causes? Or are you saying that the<br>
>> NULL options issue is revealed by this change? That is certainly possible.<br>
> Yes, you may also say that the NULL options issue has been revealed by this<br>
> change. I didn't know, why this check has been removed and I don't know why it<br>
> had been there beforehand. I am really new to sane! I started to look at the<br>
> code two days ago. Before I was only an ignorant user of scanimage. So please<br>
> excuse me.<br>
><br>
> But irrespective of the wording, are you going to do something about it? Or<br>
> where would be the right place to fix this problem? Currently I have no idea,<br>
> whether hplip-sane is open source and what the chances would be, to get a fix<br>
> in there, if this would be the right place for a fix. I don't even know,<br>
> whether it is part of the SANE API specification, that there must not be NULL<br>
> options.<br>
I suspect that the hpaio backend is doing something improper. However, <br>
we must deal with it somehow.<br>
I will do a fix.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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