Re: How to ship the speakup drivers

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Le 06/11/2022 à 23:17, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Didier Spaier, le dim. 06 nov. 2022 23:48:58 +0000, a ecrit:
>> He could append speakup.synth=ltlk to the kernel command line if speakup was
>> built-in (as indicated in Documentation/adminguide/spkguide.txt) but this is not
>> the case currently here (Linux 6.0.5 at time of writing if that matters).
> 
> In the debian installer, we run these lines very early, to auto-load the
> requested modules:
> 
> SYNTH=$(sed < /proc/cmdline -n -e 's/.*speakup\.synth=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p')
> if [ -n "$SYNTH" ]; then
> 	modprobe speakup_$SYNTH
> fi
> 
>> 2. Are there inconveniences to have the main speakup driver built-in the kernel?
> 
> There is no inconvenience for somebody who uses speakup. For other
> people, that's some extra memory that is taken up.
> 
>> And in this case should the other drivers also built-in?
> 
> For speakup.synth=ltlk to work without any userland scripting, yes.

Thanks Samuel!
Didier




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