preparing speakup for staging

preparing speakup for staging

[William Hubbs]

All,

I am currently going through the speakup code to start preparing it to
be submitted to the kernel developers  for the "staging" tree, which is
the first step for kernel inclusion.

One of those changes will make git speakup incompatible with kernels
before 2.6.31.

For the rest of the developers, the issue is that LINUX_VERSION_CODE is
not supposed to be used in the version of speakup we send upstream.

It was suggested to me that I should do that part of the sgaging work on
a separate branch in our repository.  But, I don't  think that is a good
idea, because it means that we would have to maintain two
branches in the repository from now on and make sure that all changes to
master went to the other branch as well.

If no one objects by 0  utc on Sunday, I will consider the master branch
fair game for pushing this change.

Thanks,

William

Re: preparing speakup for staging

[William Hubbs]

All,

please disregard my previous message in this thread.  Speakup has been
submitted upstream, so the next thing you will hear from me is whether
or not we were accepted into the staging tree.

William

Re: preparing speakup for staging

[Samuel Thibault]

William Hubbs, le Thu 07 Oct 2010 19:15:47 -0500, a écrit :
> But, I don't  think that is a good
> idea, because it means that we would have to maintain two
> branches in the repository from now on and make sure that all changes to
> master went to the other branch as well.

That's precisely what git is really good at: having branches and merge
on a regular basis.

That being said, we still probably need to establish a workflow to
maintain a modular speakup and the staging speakup.

Samuel

Re: preparing speakup for staging

[Steve Holmes]

That's exciting we're that much closer to full Kernel inclusion.  I do
have one question though; is the serial support for recent kernels
still broken? I know the last time I tried my speakout synth, it still
wouldn't work.  I have tested it with other serial communications and
used it on another machine where I have a very old kernel so the
synth, port and cable are good.  It just seems ironic that even though
software synthesis has become increasingly popular and convenient, the
one thing that speakup used to require and stood out with was serial
support which now doesn't work in many cases.  If I understood that
code base better, I could try and debug it/fix it.

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:25:15AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> William Hubbs, le Thu 07 Oct 2010 19:15:47 -0500, a écrit :
> > But, I don't  think that is a good
> > idea, because it means that we would have to maintain two
> > branches in the repository from now on and make sure that all changes to
> > master went to the other branch as well.
> 
> That's precisely what git is really good at: having branches and merge
> on a regular basis.
> 
> That being said, we still probably need to establish a workflow to
> maintain a modular speakup and the staging speakup.
> 
> Samuel
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Re: preparing speakup for staging

[William Hubbs]

Hi Steve,

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:06:26AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> That's exciting we're that much closer to full Kernel inclusion.  I do
> have one question though; is the serial support for recent kernels
> still broken? I know the last time I tried my speakout synth, it still
> wouldn't work.  I have tested it with other serial communications and
> used it on another machine where I have a very old kernel so the
> synth, port and cable are good.  It just seems ironic that even though
> software synthesis has become increasingly popular and convenient, the
> one thing that speakup used to require and stood out with was serial
> support which now doesn't work in many cases.  If I understood that
> code base better, I could try and debug it/fix it.

Yes, unfortunatelyk, this is still an issue.  That is part of the reason
for staging though.  Hopefully this will get more people looking at the
code and helping us rework the serial code among other things so that
we can get to full kernel inclusion.

William