development questions

[Kirk Reiser]

"Chris Peterson" <capeterson at visi.com> writes:

> I'm waiting for my doubletalk pc to come so I can do that.  Btw, is there
> any plan to write a driver for the doubletalk lt?
As another person has pointed out the DoubleTalk lt is already covered
> by the LiteTalk driver speakup_ltlk.c.

> Okay, so where is that lookup table stored?  I can read the one at the botom
> of the tutorial, but I want to know where this is actually stored so I can
> understand how to add my own functions to it.  Perhaps I didn't phrase my
> initial question well or I had to many questions in one message.

That tutorial is quite out of date but it covers the basic issues
still quite well.  We don't use loadspk/dumpspk anymore.  That
functionally is totally handled by the /proc filesystem these days.  I
am pretty sure the tutorial states that the actual declarations are in
speakup.h.  Which is where they are.  There was also an article I
wrote a few years ago about how to write functions to be included but
I don't seem to be able to find it.  What functions do you want added?
How much experience do you have kernel coding?  I am not trying to
discourage you but there are things which will bite you in the ass if
you aren't good and familiar with kernel issues.  We can always use
extra hands though so if you're willin to put in the work it will be
nice having you on board.  I also recommend you get on the reflector
if that is the case.  If you don't know about the reflector, then I
recommend you read the web site at linux-speakup.org.  It would have
told you the lt was covered as well.

  Kirk

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