John G. Heim, le Wed 01 May 2013 13:05:23 -0500, a ?crit : > But that's no answer. This is the same problem I had with the responses I > got on the linux-kernel list. I asked extremely specific questions below > and just saying no isn't enough. That's an XYZ problem. People won't answer Y because the actual issue is X, whose answer is Z. > Specifically, what is wrong with my patch? It's dealing with Y, not X. > Does speakup need to call request_reggion at all? It shouldn't have to. > If so, why,? What does request_region do? Try to circumvent the kernel. > It looks as if request_region always fails if you request > a region at the address of the serial port even if the serial port is not in > use? Why is that? If this behaviour is by design, what is the speakup code > supposed to do instead? It is supposed to open the serial code a correct way. Samuel
