-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 05:11:33PM -0500, John Heim wrote: > Kirk, I know you're busy and I hate to ask but do you think you could give a > brief status report? Is speakup ever going to be in the main kernel source > tree? Of course, I understand these things take time but I was just > wondering if there is a problem. I'm not Kirk, but from what I understand, speakup isn't in the mainstream kernel source, because the kernel developers think the code is badly written, and it doesn't meet their standards. As for whether or not speakup will be a part of the kernel tree, I hate to be blunt and direct, but I think the question to ask before that one as of now, is whether speakup will work ever again or not? I know all of us would probably say yes, and it probably will, but it isn't going to magically happen. From what I've seen in the gentoo bug description, the main show stopper now is speakup's serial code, and as far as I can tell, fixing that will mean either rewriting how speakup probes for a serial synth (which doesn't sound and probably isn't simple), or putting a part of, or all of speakup into user space. No, I'm not volunteering. Like a couple of people here said, I too have looked at the speakup code in the past. While I have a vague inkling of what's happening, I don't understand enough about kernel internals myself to write the same thing from scratch, or probably to even attempt successfully modifying it. Yes, I know I could learn kernel programming, but that would take time, and time, like many of us, isn't something I happen to have right now. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGnBBv7s9z/XlyUyARAhoAAJwMmRL59W9DTZ/3Vjn4LvLXCCN1sACgz8HG d2RRGj2OG9fiGsJwhzQAqbk= =MRIz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
