As usual, missing attachment, here is the patch file.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:30:53AM -0500, Fox wrote: >Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:30:53 -0500 >From: Fox <web at leberger.biz> >To: Sane mailing list <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org> >Subject: Fujitsu S1100 tester found > > Hello all, > > I have decided to contribute to the open source community and I will > test one of the scanner, the Fujitsu S1100 which use the epjitsu > backend, because you are searching for testers ... so, here I am. > > But I am a little confused since I don't know the real state of the > actual backend. > > On this discussion thread of ubuntu, on July 11th, 2011, the member > evolution124 talks about a patch and gives a zip file containing the > patch to apply which is attached to this mail since you have to > subscribe to ubuntuforums to get it :-( . He names it epjitsu-21. > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1678335&highlight=s1100 > > On the second page of the thread: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1678335&highlight=s1100&page=2 > there is also a script to work it out and do all the job of getting > the sane backends, patching, compiling and installing it. > > I have cloned the development git repository and the latest version of > epjitsu.c is v20 dated from 2010-02-09 which was done by MAN and there > is no mention whatsoever of the v21 in there !?! > > Soooooooo, what I want to know is what is the real status of this > backend? And if you were aware of this unofficial v21 patch. > > But first, I will have to receive this new scanner (in a couple of > days) and I am sure we will make it work but you will have to guide me > a little before I can be settled to test it the way you want it to! > For example, who is MAN? Is he still the maintainer of this specific > backend? Does he still work on it? Do you have testing procedures or > is it just: plug it, scan 2 pages and shout 'Hurray' it's working? > > By the way, I am an old timer (asm 6502 anyone?) and still a techie > and knows a lot about computers, coding, development cycles, testing > and production environments since it's my job since 1988. I am a also > a Linux fanatic since ... Slackware 0.9 ... just to let you know. > > Awaiting orders and words of wisdom from sane gurus. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: epjitsu-21.diff.zip Type: application/zip Size: 16432 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20120216/5178a045/attachment-0001.zip>
