What do you think of Dave Borowski's mods to speakup? He says he is working on a driver to enable speakup to open any synth such as usbserial, etc.? What are your thoughts on how to get this to work? On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:10:32 -0500, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Okash Khawaja, on Thu 10 Nov 2016 15:02:21 +0000, wrote: > > I am currently studying speakup's kernel code. Can someone guide me what is > > it's current status? > > It's currently in the staging part of the kernel, which is already a > good thing since it gets updated as the kernel API changes. > > > - What needs to be done in order to mainline it? I have read the TODO file but > > not sure how up-to-date it is. > > Its first item might be set to "update TODO" :) > > About the "how to communicate with the serial ports" item, I do have > hints how it could be done, I just never got around finding the time to > hack it down. > > > - Are there existing plans to do work on the driver? > > Not that I know of. > > > - Although the code is fairly readable, is there any documentation for the > > driver? > > Not that I know of. > > > Please add anything else you think is relevant. > > Make sure to synchronize with the speakup list. Perhaps better > explicitly Cc us like you just did, to catch our eyes, I for instance > don't necessarily follow the speakup list that closely unfortunately. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
