development questions

[Chris Peterson]

> That tutorial is quite out of date but it covers the basic issues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

I'll go back through it and look, but I didn't see it the two or three times
I read that over.

> 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?

I'm not sure what I want added, if anything...  I was just curious to know
how it worked.  I have no experience with kernel coding, but this seemed
like as good a reason to learn as anything.

> 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

I don't doubt that, but it is good to learn these things...  I'm in my last
semester of a computer science degree and, while I'm in the habit of
studying, I figured I might as well learn about some of this stuff.

> 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

I know about the reflecter, and I'm pleased to know about others using
SpeakFreely.  Some friends and I run a reflecter on fox.sector14.net:2074
for our own enjoyment.  Its a great tool, but the university just put in nat
to the dorms so I've been cut off from SpeakFreely until I can set up a VPN
to the outside or something else.  I tried using SSH port forwarding, but
that didn't work so now I'm going to try a pptp connection to a friends box
to get a clear shot out the firewall.  I just have to wait for him to set up
his machine to do it.

Thanks again and I'm sure that after I've learned a little more about how
the kernel is put together, I'll probably be able to be of some help to you.

Chris