From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 17B861EFE41; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:35:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail0205.smtp25.com (mail0205.smtp25.com [174.37.170.205]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F8911EFE2B for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:35:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id uAB1Z2Vw011495 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:35:02 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.13.7/Submit) id uAB1Z2r0011494; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:35:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:35:02 -0500 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Status of kernel In-Reply-To: <20161110161032.GO7521@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> References: <20161110161032.GO7521@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/25.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com Organization: Covici Computer Systems MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamH-Filter: s-out-001.smtp25.com-uAB1Z2Lb011717 X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 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: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:35:13 -0000 What do you think of Dave Borowski's mods to speakup? He says he is working on a driver to enable speakup to open any synth such as usbserial, etc.? What are your thoughts on how to get this to work? On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:10:32 -0500, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Okash Khawaja, on Thu 10 Nov 2016 15:02:21 +0000, wrote: > > I am currently studying speakup's kernel code. Can someone guide me what is > > it's current status? > > It's currently in the staging part of the kernel, which is already a > good thing since it gets updated as the kernel API changes. > > > - What needs to be done in order to mainline it? I have read the TODO file but > > not sure how up-to-date it is. > > Its first item might be set to "update TODO" :) > > About the "how to communicate with the serial ports" item, I do have > hints how it could be done, I just never got around finding the time to > hack it down. > > > - Are there existing plans to do work on the driver? > > Not that I know of. > > > - Although the code is fairly readable, is there any documentation for the > > driver? > > Not that I know of. > > > Please add anything else you think is relevant. > > Make sure to synchronize with the speakup list. Perhaps better > explicitly Cc us like you just did, to catch our eyes, I for instance > don't necessarily follow the speakup list that closely unfortunately. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- 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