rfc: speakup supported kernels

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Thu Jun 24 16:09:28 EDT 2010


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Hi. 2.6.26 should be fine, although my server here still runs 2.6.19.2. I'm not
physically at the machine most of the time, and in very few instances need to
pull out the Dec Express to fix some problem or other.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:37:03PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
> 
> our documentation states that speakup supports kernels 2.6.18 and later.
> I doubt that this is correct any longer, so I wanted to bring this to
> the list and figure out which versions of the kernel we want to try to
> support.
> 
> I would suggest 2.6.26 and later, because from that point on if someone
> wants to build speakup into the kernel, we modify the build system to do
> that, but we do not change any of the kernel source itself.
> 
> Does anyone know if kernel versions older than 2.6.26 are being used
> these days?  Do we still need speakup support for those older kernels?
> 
> Any input on this would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> William
> 
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