From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6EA761EF941; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:23:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail0137.smtp25.com (mail0137.smtp25.com [75.126.84.137]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34CC61EF84A for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:23:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id u1OEMw6L012104 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:23:00 -0500 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Help with serial synths in 4.X kernels In-reply-to: <56CD93E3.2040009@baechler.net> References: <56CC626F.90700@baechler.net> <497.1456239922@ccs.covici.com> <56CD93E3.2040009@baechler.net> Comments: In-reply-to Tony Baechler message dated "Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:28:35 -0800." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 25.1.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <12102.1456323778.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:22:58 -0500 Message-ID: <12103.1456323778@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-u1OEN1G3017063 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:23:11 -0000 First, 4.3 is not lts according to the kernel.org webpage. The patch I mean is the one I described, this has nothing to do with building packages, I am talking about modifying serialio.c to comment out the return NULL statement. I don't build any packages, I just compile myself. Tony Baechler wrote: > First, 4.3 is considered stable which is why I picked it. We're > already up to 4.3.3 which fixes bugs in earlier 4.3.X > releases. Second, I'm not sure which patch you mean, but if you're > referring to John's patch on his build instructions page which > modifies serialio.c, yes, I applied it first to the vanilla sources > and it locked up the machine. I didn't apply it after backporting the > latest Speakup source from the staging tree because I didn't think it > was necessary. I think some of Samuel's patches didn't get accepted, > thus leaving serial synth support still broken. > > On 2/23/2016 7:05 AM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Do you have the serialio.c patched to comment out the return null in > > around line 42? I am running successfully using 4.1.15 kernel, I have > > not checked the 4.3 series as I want to run lts ones only. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > 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@ccs.covici.com