speakup-r is a function which allows continuous reading of a document and when you stop reading, the cursor is where you left off. This stopped working in kernel 3.6 because of this commit 4369c64c79a22b98d3b7eff9d089196cd878a10a is the first bad commit commit 4369c64c79a22b98d3b7eff9d089196cd878a10a Author: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Sep 15 15:23:35 2012 +0200 Input: Send events one packet at a time On heavy event loads, such as a multitouch driver, the irqsoff latency can be as high as 250 us. By accumulating a frame worth of data before passing it on, the latency can be dramatically reduced. As a side effect, the special EV_SYN handling can be removed, since the frame is now atomic. This patch adds the events() handler callback and uses it if it exists. The latency is improved by 50 us even without the callback. Cc: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> :040000 040000 9ff0ae120a6a0c5f81678f60c020136ca3b4f56f 2708951fb2572ebe91f70115632bd85ad5fdce09 M drivers :040000 040000 c9c7f25822de01c00809d4a99def341495ce1b0a eab83ca81d51bb2b5227c0de47bffe81378b577c M include The problem was that the fakekey.c routine to fake a down arrow no longer functioned properly and putting the input_sync fixed it. I hope that helps. Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:44:11AM -0400, covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Here is a patch to make speakup-r work on recent kernels. > > Acked-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Can you provide a changelog that says why this is needed and what it > does? "make it work" just isn't all that descriptive, sorry. > > And what is "recent kernels"? When did this break? What broke? > > thanks, > > greg k-h -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup