Help with serial synths in 4.X kernels

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

First, 4.3 is not lts according to the kernel.org webpage.

The patch I mean is the one I described, this has nothing to do with
building packages, I am talking about modifying serialio.c to comment
out the return NULL statement.  I don't build any packages, I just
compile myself.

Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> First, 4.3 is considered stable which is why I picked it. We're
> already up to 4.3.3 which fixes bugs in earlier 4.3.X
> releases. Second, I'm not sure which patch you mean, but if you're
> referring to John's patch on his build instructions page which
> modifies serialio.c, yes, I applied it first to the vanilla sources
> and it locked up the machine. I didn't apply it after backporting the
> latest Speakup source from the staging tree because I didn't think it
> was necessary. I think some of Samuel's patches didn't get accepted,
> thus leaving serial synth support still broken.
> 
> On 2/23/2016 7:05 AM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Do you have the serialio.c patched to comment out the return null in
> > around line 42?  I am running successfully using 4.1.15 kernel, I have
> > not checked the 4.3 series as I want to run lts ones only.
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