From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 14A001F01CF; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 07:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-wm0-x242.google.com (mail-wm0-x242.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::242]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AA541F0169 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 07:06:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-x242.google.com with SMTP id u65so19048900wmu.3 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 04:06:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=Xh4xATEtT7B+heLbG4WJaG6yXy+yUrEiECgoqzb2bf8=; b=erDdH3HwNQOw04f3/GTGPbFs1mYozwN440HpOPmvzWPZcn5Y/BYwMe2894gx6Ln931 OELiFLkjAqicH35ICw9TDJcfZ3uJd8GIU5mKbcn+RprN6nfZLdRAIobIgnphAfrKfrm2 3vRo5xCOSEwCOPcHNWFCmM+ENREj9ojH56ATuwR4yTr69XgkV5SF5mQ+Dz1JlWYZ/maG ki9AakbsRTYDlx8yJ3n24DAp6F76bBFgnWQtMhLsIZ4ZyGU5U0OJpnUECxLNSbN0oQ2S We6b7lNMMuAaCfl8sSPFTruaHGC9SBhSwynuf7KB8dNwM1ZjhwrocvmulY6SQFH/QNza //Cw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=Xh4xATEtT7B+heLbG4WJaG6yXy+yUrEiECgoqzb2bf8=; b=Wq/asPmen5qwf+BE0Ro/+OZtXa56Ce1KBVM6ESUPn6bNnm3som7/bqoqM2XDrAEace yyW9JZISG4UlOJiAEy0s24qtbeq/PiGOiyiPmee9qgwd9AYER5uffVsEJUzLm7yk4iuj Iq7Pup7XuJUxVbfaj7YQ+eShLRzMXejT2Ly0V4f+7dLSnXX957qQcYJENAjD8amUR4qL CeP0aF2vEakuqbBGWhXHhhtwqKLN6ga/0H1Tz74Z5uPhX+v6iNDRtd67Uqx5p8qohMlS z1ApECRVtHlhe4KjI/ZPrz+e4HWgZSspxDpxv2kLoiea7OLmGdzwXdiFesL+j0R0wn6v z/Og== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/7oY8f+HPkBYiP4AocaZWBLwLcOfLStHvkf5ppNE7FsWvhaBt81 ypG/7A+LeZGkC4X9nHF6XA== X-Received: by 10.28.68.134 with SMTP id r128mr781100wma.60.1493550400457; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 04:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.168.29.110] (92.40.249.60.threembb.co.uk. [92.40.249.60]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c128sm5811634wmh.32.2017.04.30.04.06.39 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 30 Apr 2017 04:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] staging: speakup: migrate synths to use TTY-based comms From: Okash Khawaja X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (11A501) In-Reply-To: <35be38b6-55ef-0c4f-9998-4a9730ba5fea@baechler.net> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:06:39 +0100 Cc: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20170429195257.630355823@gmail.com> <20170429195816.GA4135@sanghar> <35be38b6-55ef-0c4f-9998-4a9730ba5fea@baechler.net> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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 11:06:45 -0000 Hi Tony, > On 30 Apr 2017, at 11:21, Tony Baechler wrote: >=20 > I'm sorry for asking this, but does this mean I don't need to apply the ha= ck 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 pos= ted a long time ago? Yes > I'm not a programmer. All recent kernels don't let the synths grab the ser= ial 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.=20 >=20 > 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.=20 > I'm compiling a 4.10 kernel with your patches and I want to know what to t= est and if there are new features. Your speakup2 tarball compiled fine on De= bian kernel 4.10.7. That's great! If anything that would be the bottleneck in testing :) >=20 > 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 :)=