Someone is probably going to launch an ICBM at my house for asking this
question, but, I wonder if we could ditch serial support. Maybe that could
be run in user space, and the rest could go into mainline. Do you know if
it's just the serial stuff they have a problem with?
--
Bill in Denver
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, John G. Heim wrote:
> I've been on the linux kernel list and there is no way that speakup is going
> to get out of staging without a rewrite. The people on the list kept asking
> me why speakup can't run in user space and stuff like that. The idea that
> speakup is for blind people like video output is for sighted people was
> completely foreign. How would you like it if your monitor was blank until
> the system finished booting? Would you consider that adequate? They didn't
> have an answer for that. But I'll admit that I don't understand exactly what
> their problems are with the speakup code.
>
> It doesn't matter though because Red Hat's solution doesn't have to involve
> speakup. It would be nice if it did though.
>
>
> On 03/29/2013 11:15 AM, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 wrote:
>> What they said, in essence, was that they weren't interested in turning
>> on Speakup until it was out of staging . I was rather rudely encouraged
>> to get with upstream and make it happen.
>>
>>
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