Any News on cut-and-paste bug?

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I wonder if that error code is trying to tell us something -- I do know
if I try to use the soft synth with that patch installed, it crashes,
presumably because its trying to release a null pointer or something.

I also saw on the serial list, some kinf of call to platform register
(not exactly sure of the name), so I wonder if these are the right calls
anymore?


John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 05/01/13 08:50, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > John G. Heim, le Wed 01 May 2013 08:45:54 -0500, a écrit :
> >> A big part of the problem is that even if someone is willing to take on
> >> writing fixes for speakup, the kernel people won't cooperate. I tried to get
> >> some help/advice from the linux kernel  list on implementing the bug fix I
> >> had for serial synths. Their advice -- start over.
> >
> > Which isn't really not cooperating. The current code will keep having
> > such kind of issues until it gets rewritten a more integrated way.
> 
> Well, the details of this particular bug are significant. The problem
> was that the speakup code was erroring out on what I believe was a
> totally meaningless error code. All I did was change the code to print
> a warning and keep going.
> 
> If you are a programmer, you may be saying to yourself, "Well, that's
> not a good way to solve a problem." But I am about as sure as I can be
> that the function call that returned the error code did nothing. The
> function was part of the kernel code, not speakup. So I went on the
> kernel list to ask what the function was supposed to do,   was it
> necessary to call it at all,  and how to call it correctly.
> 
> All I wanted to do was get rid of what I suspected was a call to a
> function that apparently did nothing and the subsequent erroring
> out. But nobody seemed to know what the function did or if they did,
> they weren't sharing. They did, however, take the time to criticize
> the speakup code itself.
> 
> So I was like, "Come on, people. Can't we just focus on this one
> problem? It seems like a small fix for a huge problem. I mean, I
> cannot use my hardware speech synth without patching the kernel
> code. This could cost me my job. It could cost a lot of blind systems
> admins their jobs."
> 
> No love.
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