From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 03FA61EFDEE; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:54:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net (vms173009pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.9]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5D6E1EFDE7 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:54:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from vz-proxy-m001.mx.aol.com ([64.236.83.14]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0OGP00FN0GZGWG50@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:54:53 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=EKN26xRC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MJxOpqxZADbEbEImuSX/mw==:117 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=L24OOQBejmoA:10 a=DAWtUiyZAAAA:8 a=gh22zWRxAAAA:8 a=m8YGQp87AAAA:8 a=qPKtzgQbAAAA:8 a=wAKNuI7HXBl0CXvCvCUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by 71.174.190.247 with SMTP id 029dbac3; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:54:52 GMT Subject: Re: Status of kernel To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20161115184710.GI2448@var.home> <0b27a2d0-1514-c31f-1fa5-6215894dc6a7@math.wisc.edu> <20161115193858.GS2448@var.home> From: Al Sten-Clanton Message-id: <582B923C.2040504@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:54:52 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:54:55 -0000 This is just a quick thank you for the discussion and links on this subject. Maybe over some good time I'll understand it, but for now I'm glad for the pointers. I'm also glad to know that people are considering this aspect of non-visual access and may be able to make it work again. Al On 11/15/2016 04:08 PM, Willem Venter wrote: > Hi all. > Since I don't know anything about line discipline I did some searching > and found the following: > http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1891/ > It is quite interesting. Not sure how up to date this is since it was > published in2005. Maybe with this combined with the kernel API updates > it might be useful to someone here. It details an example read-only > driver for a touch-screen, but the descriptions are quite general. It > mentions /dev, so maybe it's not exactly what is required, but it also > mentions examples in the kernel to look at. > > Also see: > https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TTYLineDisciplineWhy > > > > On 11/15/16, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello, >> >> John G Heim, on Tue 15 Nov 2016 13:31:36 -0600, wrote: >>> Is that list, linux-serial, the place where most of the discussion on the >>> status of speakup goes on? >> >> No, it was to raise the discussion on how it's supposed to plug. >> >> Samuel >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >