Fwd: Re: speakup issues

[William Hubbs]

----- Forwarded message from Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> -----

> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:47:19 -0700
> From: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> To: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>
> Cc: devel at driverdev.osuosl.org
> Subject: Re: speakup issues
> 
> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:59:58AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> 
> Hi.  Note my email change, you probably got the bounce from the old
> suse.de address already...
> 
> > I am writing to you and to this list because I'm not quite sure where
> > else to write to ask this.
> > 
> > For those on the list who do not know me, I am one of the developers
> > working on Speakup.
> > 
> > I am interested in collecting a list of things that would need to happen
> > to allow speakup to move from staging to mainline. Is this list the
> > place to get that kind of information?
> > 
> > Greg, if you decide when things can move, can you give me a list of
> > things that we need to look into fixing?
> > 
> > I'm sure the speakup serial i/o code is one of those things, but what
> > else needs to be done?
> 
> Dan has given you a great list of things to work on, start with that.
> 
> Running checkpatch.pl is a great place to start with.  The serial stuff
> can be worked on as well, there are better ways to resolve that problem.
> 
> Also, please remove all the BUG_ON() instances, no driver should ever be
> able to instantly stop a machine, with no chance of it to be revived,
> that's just not nice.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

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