Linux distros (was Re: RH9 disks on the net.)

Luke Davis ldavis at shellworld.net
Thu Apr 10 01:12:57 EDT 2003


We're talking about the official distribution, not your own patched copy
of the official distribution of the kernel.

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote:

> Lorenzo wrote:
>
>  > Wouldn't it be really nice, though, if Speakup could be included
>  > as a "make config" question in the official kernel.org source?
>
> I just applied the speakup patches to the kernel.org source,
> and it does appear in make config. It adds a new option
> CONFIG_SPEAKUP. And using make menuconfig I get a new item
>
> Console drivers -> [ ] Speakup console speech (NEW)
>
> So I agree ... this should be in the official source.
>
>
> Luke wrote:
>
>  > If that's going to happen, a "speakup=no" option is probably
>  > needed, to  prevent its loading in a precompiled kernel.
>
> This is the config for the kernel build ... not sure I
> understand what you mean ... this tells the kernel
> compile to include speakup or not ... in the kernel.
>
>    -- Doug
>
>
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