commit breaks speakup serial support

covici at ccs.covici.com covici at ccs.covici.com
Sun Sep 13 07:08:27 EDT 2015


I wish they would not do this without us testing, they don't use the
thing themselves!

Brandon McGinty-Carroll <bmmcginty at bmcginty.us> wrote:

> I'm refreshing the source to check, but I know speakup code has gone to driverdev-devel in the past.
> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
> 
> 
> Brandon
> 
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 06:16:00AM -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi.  I have found a commit in the 3.17-3.18 kernel tree which totally
> > breaks speakup's serial support because someone blindly used check.pl
> > and followed its advise without using their brains.
> > 
> > The commit is f79b0d9c223ca09cefffc72304a7bcbc401a1c6f and here is the
> > diff for that.
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.h
> > b/drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.h
> > index 0a93773..317bb84 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.h
> > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/serial.h>      /* for rs_table, serial constants */
> >  #include <linux/serial_reg.h>  /* for more serial constants */
> >  #ifndef __sparc__
> > -#include <asm/serial.h>
> > +#include <linux/serial.h>
> >  #endif
> > 
> >  /*
> > 
> > As you can see this breaks serialio.c, so it can't find the serial port
> > -- so how do I get the devs to ax this commit?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -- 
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> > you spend it?
> > 
> >          John Covici
> >          covici at ccs.covici.com
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