rfc: speakup supported kernels

[Trevor Astrope]

Kernels older than 2.6.26 definitely don't work with current speakup, as 
speakup only supports the newer kobject implementation.

Rhel/Centos 5 use a modified 2.6.18 kernel. As it stands, these 
distributions aren't supported. Personally, I use a stable distro such as 
these, as I just like to have a stable working system that is low 
maintenance. I upgrade my os wehn I upgrade my hardware, which is about 
every 5 years. Rhel/centos is also popular in enterprise environments.

I don't think it is necessary to support the older kernels with new 
speakup versions, but it would be nice if an older speakup release that 
did work with these kernels would still be available. That is the downside 
to using git and not releasing stable versions.



On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, 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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