From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta10.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.202]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I00ve-0002G5-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:00:54 -0400 Received: from linux1.home ([76.186.253.101]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20070617200023.JWVL15873.mta10.adelphia.net@linux1.home> for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:00:23 +0000 Received: by linux1.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A94E0813D; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:00:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:00:22 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: gentoo dropping speakup support Message-ID: <20070617200022.GA16786@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:00:54 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All, because of this bug [1], gentoo linux will be dropping support for speakup in its official kernels starting at 2.6.22. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177794 Is there any possibility at all that speakup could be moved into user space as the bug suggests? I feel that if we can go into user space this will b a better approach. Thanks, - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead williamh@gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdZLWblQW9DDEZTgRAsCOAJoD/roDmHTKu7ji8qTXZ2eoX47T1ACeIivJ j/qhb9Z6KNpfitEvr7Onrug= =mpb2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----