From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 526BF1EF6BD; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:21:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E05421EF69B for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:21:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccs.covici.com (d-out-001.smtp25.com [67.228.158.174] (may be forged)) by d-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s9C7LQlA010349 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:21:26 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s9C7LPY9020934 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:21:25 -0400 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speakup in the kernel In-reply-to: <20141012070923.GA4051@type> References: <86a956i23h.fsf@vibrator.pk5001z> <20141009125200.GI1044@opera.rednote.net> <86ppe1gyed.fsf@vibrator.pk5001z> <5436B2E4.5060306@math.wisc.edu> <5436B66A.4060600@tysdomain.com> <5436BD4A.1090208@math.wisc.edu> <21053.1412882630@ccs.covici.com> <5436EA36.5010105@math.wisc.edu> <20141011074623.GB2692@type> <9862.1413021338@ccs.covici.com> <20141012070923.GA4051@type> Comments: In-reply-to Samuel Thibault message dated "Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:09:23 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:21:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20931.1413098485@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-s9C7LQlA010349 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 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: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:21:32 -0000 But if you could do that, then you could do a USB driver along the same lines -- at least then speakup would support a pci serial card. Or would it be easier to write a USB driver first -- not sure. I still think an actual discussion on my conference bridge or somewhere with you, me, chris and anyone else who wants to participate would be very helpful. Samuel Thibault wrote: > covici@ccs.covici.com, le Sat 11 Oct 2014 05:55:38 -0400, a =C3=A9crit : > > One of those people once told me that you could write a driver, pretend > > speakup is a new device or something like that and find the serial port > > the same way the current 8250 drivers do. Is this nonsense, or is it > > something we could do and this would make speakup much more robust than > > it is now. >=20 > It makes sense, but I think it is going backwards in terms of USB > support, for instance. >=20 > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup --=20 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