[sane-devel] genesys_gl847 scanners produce a black band in scanned images (github issue #7)

[Fermulator]

I believe my post was never approved. @moderator please review thank you

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  Fermulator
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, at 9:33 AM, Fermulator wrote:
> Good day experts
> 
> Looking to address sane-backend dev with expertise in the genesys code area.
> 
> As per:
>  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1731459
>  * https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/7
> 
> I'd like to raise attention to this bug - it has hit countless users of 
> the Canon IDE scanner beds;
> 
> What we know:
>  * downgrading to 1.0.25 fixes the issue
>  * I believe I isolated the delivery/change to : 
> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/commit/bd0b0cd218504868f32962a5558449956c8ce242
> 
> However, there is insufficient context/comments in that commit for me 
> to understand if we can just revert that change or not. (i.e. was it 
> delivered as an optimization? or to fix some other suite of hardware? 
> ...)
> 
> Looking for guidance.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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>   Fermulator
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