Is there any reason why a fix hasn't been implemented? Not to criticize the speakup developers -- they've done a great job. But I'd think that since the bug has been around for a while it would be fixed by now. If its a matter of finding time to do it, I'm willing to do what I can. I suspect that the code that checks if the serial port needs to be freed is wrong. The code prints a message saying speakup is trying to "steal" the serial ports. And then it checks if ttyS0 is free and if not, calls __release_region, and then it checks again if the port is free. But since the check fails no matter what and since it doesn't seem to matter that it fails, most likely, the check itself is bogus. In other words, this is probably a speakup bug rather than a kernel bug. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:20 PM Subject: Re: still more on bug > Thats exactly what you were supposed to do, probably has implications that > I don't realize but it beats not being able to use serial synth. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
