[sane-devel] 1.0.25 is out, now what?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 21 21:32 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt):
> Alessandro Zummo writes:
>>  There's probably still some bug in the usb code. I have
>>  intermittent results with some scanners on usb2
>>  and with others on usb3. switching among the two usb
>>  standards solves them all.
>
> I'm curious about USB related issues that other backends
> are facing that might be solved by switching to libusb-1
> as the default.

At openSUSE we use libusb-1 since openSUSE 12.2
(i.e. we use libusb-1 since about April 2012)
via "configure --enable-libusb_1_0".
I am not aware of issues because of this.


Regarding USB 3, see
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856794

Summary:
It seems one needs a very current kernel for USB 3.
For me kernel 4.1.6 did not work with sane-backends-1.0.25.
For me kernel-vanilla-4.3.rc5 works where it seems
the xhci USB driver is now at least somewhat fixed.
But I needed additionally the workarounds for
the broken xhci driver in sane-backends-1.0.25
i.e. sane-backends-1.0.24 did not work for me
with kernel-vanilla-4.3.rc5, see
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856794#c28


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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