Speakup cvs and 2.6.0

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Thu Jul 17 10:09:33 EDT 2003


And, now that Test1 of the 2.6 kernel is out, can we get an email to the
list when we can start playing in this newest candy store?

My first 2.6 tree is waiting for Speakup! <grin>

Thomas Stivers writes:
> From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> 
> On 07/14/03  6:00 PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> > Hi Toby,
> > 
> > 	Until last Friday, cvs DID work with 2.4.21. David checked in some changes then, that broke 2.4.21 with speakup.
> 
> You can still fix the rejected patches by hand. I removed the word
> static from the beginning of lines around line 100 in drivers/char/keyboard.c, here are the lines.
> 
> static struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table;
> static struct tty_struct * tty;'
> 
> There was also a rejected patch in drivers/char/Makefile and I had to
> add vt.o to the end of this line near line 25.
> 
> au1000_gpio.o hp_psaux.o nvram.o scx200.o
> 
> I had to do this with the kernel source supplied by debian, so I don't
> know if the same will work with the vanilla source. If you got rejects
> on other files then send the .rej files to the list.
> -- 
> Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
> 
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