From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B5E2B1F0127; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:03:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vms173021pub.verizon.net (vms173021pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.21]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D6E81F00AE for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:03:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vz-proxy-l005.mx.aol.com ([64.236.82.151]) by vms173021.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0OP80036Y9SK1S30@vms173021.mailsrvcs.net> for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:02:45 -0500 (CDT) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=daDw5Tfe c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=eaPqxu9IKnv3tbb7QsXVMw==:117 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=AzvcPWV-tVgA:10 a=2WyT8Yf-AAAA:8 a=qPKtzgQbAAAA:8 a=72xS1pOdaMnG8tOVzfoA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by 71.174.185.201 with SMTP id 14fa1395; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:02:45 GMT Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] staging: speakup: migrate synths to use TTY-based comms To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20170429195257.630355823@gmail.com> <20170429195816.GA4135@sanghar> <35be38b6-55ef-0c4f-9998-4a9730ba5fea@baechler.net> From: Al Sten-Clanton Message-id: <70cac3ab-515c-9d95-0776-1ee5b56460c6@verizon.net> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:02:43 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 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: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:03:16 -0000 Thank you very much from me as well. I'll be a truly happy camper if once again I can use Speakup with my TripleTalk LT. Al On 4/30/2017 7:06 AM, Okash Khawaja wrote: > Hi Tony, > >> On 30 Apr 2017, at 11:21, Tony Baechler wrote: >> >> I'm sorry for asking this, but does this mean I don't need to apply the hack to grab serial ports in recent kernels? In other words, if I load speakup_dectlk, will it actually work without the patch to serialio.c which was posted a long time ago? > Yes > >> I'm not a programmer. All recent kernels don't let the synths grab the serial ports, so when the modules load, you get no speech. Is this resolved? > Migrated synths don't do port stealing so that shouldn't be a problem. > >> >> Also, can you give a brief summary of user-visible changes in your patches over the past months? > So these patches don't change user-visible functionality. Any change on that side resulting from these patches will be useful feedback. The changes only alter the way the drivers communicate with external synths. > >> I'm compiling a 4.10 kernel with your patches and I want to know what to test and if there are new features. Your speakup2 tarball compiled fine on Debian kernel 4.10.7. > That's great! If anything that would be the bottleneck in testing :) >> >> Thanks very much for your many patches and the huge amount of work you put into this. I'm looking forward to testing. > Means a lot :) > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >