I wonder if that error code is trying to tell us something -- I do know if I try to use the soft synth with that patch installed, it crashes, presumably because its trying to release a null pointer or something. I also saw on the serial list, some kinf of call to platform register (not exactly sure of the name), so I wonder if these are the right calls anymore? John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote: > > > On 05/01/13 08:50, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > John G. Heim, le Wed 01 May 2013 08:45:54 -0500, a ?crit : > >> A big part of the problem is that even if someone is willing to take on > >> writing fixes for speakup, the kernel people won't cooperate. I tried to get > >> some help/advice from the linux kernel list on implementing the bug fix I > >> had for serial synths. Their advice -- start over. > > > > Which isn't really not cooperating. The current code will keep having > > such kind of issues until it gets rewritten a more integrated way. > > Well, the details of this particular bug are significant. The problem > was that the speakup code was erroring out on what I believe was a > totally meaningless error code. All I did was change the code to print > a warning and keep going. > > If you are a programmer, you may be saying to yourself, "Well, that's > not a good way to solve a problem." But I am about as sure as I can be > that the function call that returned the error code did nothing. The > function was part of the kernel code, not speakup. So I went on the > kernel list to ask what the function was supposed to do, was it > necessary to call it at all, and how to call it correctly. > > All I wanted to do was get rid of what I suspected was a call to a > function that apparently did nothing and the subsequent erroring > out. But nobody seemed to know what the function did or if they did, > they weren't sharing. They did, however, take the time to criticize > the speakup code itself. > > So I was like, "Come on, people. Can't we just focus on this one > problem? It seems like a small fix for a huge problem. I mean, I > cannot use my hardware speech synth without patching the kernel > code. This could cost me my job. It could cost a lot of blind systems > admins their jobs." > > No love. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
