still more on bug

[John Heim]

Is there any reason why a fix hasn't been implemented? Not to criticize the 
speakup developers -- they've done a great job. But I'd think that since the 
bug has been around for a while it would be fixed by now. If its a matter of 
finding time to do it, I'm willing to do what I can.

I suspect that the code that checks if the serial port needs to be freed is 
wrong. The code prints a message saying speakup is trying to "steal" the 
serial ports. And then it checks if ttyS0 is free and if not, calls 
__release_region, and then it checks again if the port is free. But since 
the check fails no matter what and since it doesn't seem to matter that it 
fails, most likely, the check itself is bogus.

In other words, this is probably a speakup bug rather than a kernel bug.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl at insightbb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: still more on bug


> Thats exactly what you were supposed to do, probably has implications that 
> I don't realize but it beats not being able to use serial synth.
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