From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (wb2flw.octothorp.org [IPv6:2001:470:80ee:0:215:c5ff:fe06:ab40]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54EF11EF6EA for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:11:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (wb2flw.octothorp.org [IPv6:::1]) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2TIBXHv019930 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:11:34 GMT Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id r2TIBX12019924 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:11:33 -0600 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:11:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise 6.2 In-Reply-To: <5155C5DB.9090101@math.wisc.edu> Message-ID: References: <963B334B-76C6-494B-B10E-2EEC4631AE1C@gmail.com> <51556090.1040601@baechler.net> <3fb1fb569c54fd8aa7873fa5710d0851@mail.gmail.com> <9E19FD20D2924B07AADB5041AC590F2B@your2c061f0461> <5155AEB1.1060908@baechler.net> <5155AC98.80000@verizon.net> <5155C5DB.9090101@math.wisc.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:11:54 -0000 Someone is probably going to launch an ICBM at my house for asking this question, but, I wonder if we could ditch serial support. Maybe that could be run in user space, and the rest could go into mainline. Do you know if it's just the serial stuff they have a problem with? -- Bill in Denver On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, John G. Heim wrote: > I've been on the linux kernel list and there is no way that speakup is going > to get out of staging without a rewrite. The people on the list kept asking > me why speakup can't run in user space and stuff like that. The idea that > speakup is for blind people like video output is for sighted people was > completely foreign. How would you like it if your monitor was blank until > the system finished booting? Would you consider that adequate? They didn't > have an answer for that. But I'll admit that I don't understand exactly what > their problems are with the speakup code. > > It doesn't matter though because Red Hat's solution doesn't have to involve > speakup. It would be nice if it did though. > > > On 03/29/2013 11:15 AM, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 wrote: >> What they said, in essence, was that they weren't interested in turning >> on Speakup until it was out of staging . I was rather rudely encouraged >> to get with upstream and make it happen. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >