[sane-devel] scanimage does not recognize basic long options

[m. allan noah]

I'm ok with breaking code freeze if you want

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 2:41 PM Ralph Little <skelband at 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
>
>
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