Speakup, 2.6.22, and Git

Tue Sep 4 05:08:08 EDT 2007

Hi does this mean that the distros who droped it can now pick it up again.  

Jim Grimsby Jr. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Samuel Thibault
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:08 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup, 2.6.22, and Git

Hi,

Zachary Kline, le Mon 03 Sep 2007 20:22:11 -0700, a écrit :
> 3. I read today that the kernel serial device support was taken out of the
latest 2.6.22

That's not exactly what happened: they just dropped some internal
details from public headers.

> and thus Speakup will now work with it.

The git version works with 2.6.22, as it defines these details for its
own uses, which is sufficient at least for i386, ppc, arm, ...

> Does this preclude Speakup working in the near future with USB to serial
converters or PCI equivalents thereof?  

It doesn't hurt anything on this issue.

Samuel

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