[sane-devel] Hiroshi Miura's epjitsu work rebased against git HEAD

[Peter Marschall]

Hi all,

in my quest to get my S1300i working with sane (see [1]), I found Hiroshi 
Miura's (miurahr) work to improve Sane's epjitsu backend at github [2] and 
rebased it to Sane's git HEAD.

Advantages of the patch series:
+ got rid of some magic numbers by replacing them with meanig ful macros
+ page width support
+ support of tl_y 
+ refactoring of coarsecal()
+ support of S1100

I cannot tell about the S1100 support, but I can confirm that a patched variant 
of the epjitsu backend works together with my S1300i (although - again - with
skanlite only, see [1]). 
I did not find any regressions in comparison to Sane 10.24 nor to git HEAD.

A big advantage is the page width and tl_y support which allows to restrict
the scan output to e.g. DIN A4 instead of the full width of the scan area.

Instead of having this patch series in my repo only, I'd rather have these 
patches included in sane upstream.

In which form do you prefer to get the patches?
* a branch on github?
* a series of mails here on the list?
* ... 

In addition to these epjitsu patches, I found other patches too:
- Return \0 even when length is zero in sane_read
- typo patches from Debian
- some small patches from me
which in my opinion should go upstream too.

Thanks for your answer and your work on Sane.
Peter


[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2014-March/032139.html
[2] https://github.com/miurahr/sane-backends
-- 
Peter Marschall
peter at adpm.de