Speakup broken with kernel 3.4.x (ArchLinux users please read)

[Steve Holmes]

Is spinlock the thing that causes all the speakup command keys to
crash and lock up the computer?  If so, I sure hope people get this
moving.  This is a major show stopper and serious impact and could
really discourage new blind users to come over and try Linux.  I'm
very lucky that most of the laptop based speakup commands still work
but try toggling the caps lock key sometime.  Computer locks up every
time.  I'm on the newest kernel in Arch - 3.5.something.

On 8/15/12, Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:
> I don't see that any of those patches have been applied to the main tree
> yet, but both are applied in Greg KH's tty tree.  So they'll get there
> eventually.  I'm still waiting.
>
> -- Chris
>
> "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209" <wacker at octothorp.org> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>      I see that the goto bug patch was finally applied to the 3.6.0
>> tree. Any word on the much more serious spinlock bug? Is Alan's patch
>> still our best bet, or might it have been fixed another way? Applying
>> that patch works for the 3.5.1 kernel, but I haven't tried booting
>> without it.
>>
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