From 46518f374ebe1ff58c4a3f40e5cd7ca3116b3cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henning Geinitz Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:04:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated concerning SCSI support. --- ChangeLog | 1 + README.darwin | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index eaa16faf6..33d6d85d2 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ * sanei/sanei_scsi.c: Added SCSI support for MacOS X (from Mattias Ellert ). * include/sane/config.h.in: Added test for IOKit. + * README.darwin: Updated concerning SCSI support. 2003-04-27 Henning Meier-Geinitz diff --git a/README.darwin b/README.darwin index dc6ed11e9..6b9ec4426 100644 --- a/README.darwin +++ b/README.darwin @@ -16,10 +16,13 @@ General: If scanimage -L (or any other frontend) stops with a segmentation fault in the sm3600 backend, disable sm3600 in dll.conf if you don't need it. +Backends that use the function "fork" may not work at least with USB scanners. +That's a limitation of MacOS X (doesn't use file descriptors for USB access). + SCSI-scanners: -------------- -Probably not supported because there are no functions in sanei_scsi to access -the Darwin generic SCSI devices. Patches are welcome. +There is support for SCSI scanners but hasn't had much testing. Please send +failure and success reports to the sane-devel mailing list. USB-scanners: ------------- @@ -32,4 +35,4 @@ Parport-scanners: I don't have any information about these. Please contact me or the SANE mailing list if you succeeded in using one of these. -2002-12-30 Henning Meier-Geinitz +2003-04-30 Henning Meier-Geinitz