speakup, 2.6.22, and the way forward

[nick at nickgawronski.com]

Hi, I know that is for the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.  My question is if I
download the latest 2.2 or 2.4 kernel and try to apply speakup to that
source will it work because if not why still have those diffs in the
speakup tree?On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Alex Snow wrote:

> those are for kernels 2.2 and 2.4. they have nothing to to do with
> kernel 2.6.22 or any 2.6 kernel for that matter.
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at
> 11:18:29PM -0600, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> > Hi, What I am saying is if speakup is not compatible with other kernels why
> > when checking out speakup from cvs is there diff22 and diff24 support for
> > the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels in speakup if they no longer work?  Will speakup
> > even patch into the latest 2.2 or 2.4 kernels from the cvs system?  Why are
> > they changing to another method I think cvs is a good method?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: speakup, 2.6.22, and the way forward
> >
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> > > Git from what I understand, is like cvs and svn, but I don't know the
> > > specifics.
> > >
> > > As for losing compatibility with earlier kernels, I'm not sure I
> > > understand your concern here, since speakup wasn't compatible with
> > > earlier kernels for a good while now. For example, the speakup cvs for
> > > 2.6.21 will not patch into a 2.6.18 kernel. The solution for this of
> > > course is to grab the earlier speakup revision for the older kernels,
> > > and this will probably be doable as well once speakup supports newer
> > > kernels again.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:05:08PM -0600, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> > >> Hi, the release for the 2.6.22 kernel will be done from a git tree, which
> > >> > involves a major rewrite of other parts of Speakup  What is a gid tree
> > >> > and
> > >> > will releasing the version that works with 2.6.22 still patch into
> > >> > earlier
> > >> > kernels?  We don't want to lose earlier kernel patching ability.
> > >
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