From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Subject: Re: Any News on cut-and-paste bug?
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:16:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130501191646.GB9958@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130501154628.GK5940@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 05:46:28PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> John G. Heim, le Wed 01 May 2013 10:42:39 -0500, a écrit :
> > They did, however, take the time to criticize the speakup code itself.
>
> I'm afraid that's for a good reason: speakup works around the kernel,
> that's not an approach that can work on the long term.
Samuel is correct.
I haven't heard anything on lkml indicating that there is a vendetta
against speakup being in the kernel; it is just a very complex issue
to solve, and no one has found a solution yet.
Basically, staging/speakup/serialio.c needs to be completely rewritten,
or possibly thrown out. The problem is that it uses hard coded addresses
for the serial ports instead of communicating with them through the
kernel serial port driver. That is why we are having more and more
systems lately where speakup is having issues with serial ports. This is
also why Samuel correctly says that speakup is working around the
kernel.
The proper solution to this issue would be to have a way that speakup
can interface with the kernel serial port drivers.
It will take some rewriting on the kernel side, as well as in speakup,
to give us that functionality. It all comes down to time, and figuring
out how to make this happen.
William
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` Brandon McGinty-Carroll
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` Samuel Thibault
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` William Hubbs [this message]
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