[Alan Cox <laughing at shared-source.org>] Linux 2.4.9-ac15

[Janina Sajka]

Another interesting item:

2.4.10 is dated Sep 23.

The AC15 patch for 2.4.9 is dated Sep 24.

Sounds strange to me. But, hey, we can live with this development, right? 
<grin>

On 24 Sep 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Adam Myrow <myrow at eskimo.com> writes:
> 
> > Is this saying that Speakup is going to be part of the standard kernel?
> > This may be the best thing ever to happen to it!  No more patching!  No
> > more CVS!  Just grab the source, and compile.  Better still, once
> > distributions start shipping these kernels, they can all make Speakup boot
> > disks and kernels.  I hope I understand that correctly.
> 
> Well, it isn't as nice as all that just yet.  What this is currently
> is the hooks for speakup in console.c and keyboard.c.  There is also a
> stub speakup.h included with only enough stuff in it to allow the
> kernel to compile without speakup.  None of the other kernel code
> patches are included.  This will make our lives very interesting.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> 

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