ArchLinux, speakup and kernel 2.6.37

[Steve Holmes]

After all speakup users move to 2.6.37 of the kernel26 package, this
should be a moot point as this situation won't happen again.  Now the
only concern I could think of would be someone starting out with the
current boot image for Arch.  That is still using something like
2.6.33 but after doing a full upgrade with pacman, they wouldn't need
speakup anymore so those instructions might need to suggest the
removal of speakup before the mass upgrade.  Might need to think over
that one a bit or perhaps rebuild the boot images with this new kernel
and then that issue would go away.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:12:18AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Its mainly just a quick note to say I just updated my ArchLinux
> system to use kernel 2.6.37 and the upgrade went perfectly fine and
> speakup came up talking afterwards. So to all involved in getting
> speakup into the kernel and those working on integrating thanks.
> 
> Chris it was useful to have your message saying that speakup needed
> to be uninstalled first. While it may initially seem like one might
> loose speech output as for a short time speakup is officially
> uninstalled the running kernel kept the speakup modules running
> while the upgrade to 2.6.37 was done and so no such loss occurred. I
> just wonder whether there was a better way to do this, eg. a speakup
> dummy package for kernel 2.6.37 which provides speakup, so pacman
> could substitute that in for speakup in the upgrade process and one
> could remove that dummy package afterwards.
> 
> Michael Whapples
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