Fwd: Re: speakup issues

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Well, that does not sound so bad --   a lot of small things.  What is
checkpatch.pl ?  Also, Does Greg have a better idea for the serial
stuff?

William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> ----- 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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