Comment 425 for bug 85488

@Sitsofe: It appears that in a later message, the patch was rejected. Those messages are from earlier this month.

That said, following the thread leads to this message, which I find somewhat amusing:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/3/81
Funny how someone said that "the chances are no distribution is going to ship with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled" -- when Feisty did precisely that, months ago!

However, it is good to see that lkml seems to have developed a bit of a routine for dealing with most USB quirks, assuming the new sane-backends in gutsy doesn't fix your problem. (Yes, they are still using the blacklist.) Provided you are willing to compile small patches into a kernel and report what level of quirkiness the device needs to be accommodated for, similar to what this user did, your quirky device can now be added to the upstream code in a matter of hours! :) (Of course, figuring out how to do the compile takes a bit of work...)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/131