Re: [HELP REQUESTED from the community] Was: Staging status of speakup

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 3:49 AM John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think the program is genmap, I  have it in my init sequence, but I
> am not sure it does anything at this point.
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:04:07 -0400,
> Chris Brannon wrote:
> >
> > Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > keymap
> > > I believe this is the currently active kernel keymap. I'm not sure of
> > > the format, probably what dumpkeys(1) and showkey(1) use. Echoing
> > > different values here should allow for remapping speakup's review
> > > commands besides remapping the keyboard as a whole.
> >
> > AFAIK the Speakup keymap is just for remapping keys to Speakup
> > functions.  It's a binary format, not related to dumpkeys etc.  You need
> > a special program to compile a textual keymap into something that can be
> > loaded into /sys/accessibility/speakup/keymap.  I may have source for
> > that lying around here somewhere.  This is "here there be dragons"
> > territory.  I think the only specification of the format is in the
> > source code.
> >
> > -- Chris
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>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
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Hi Greg N,

Would like to send this as a patch as Greg K-H suggested? If not, I
can do that with your email in Authored-by: tag?

Thanks,
Okash
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