USB synths (was: serial synths in 4.X kernels)

[John G Heim]

 >> Maybe my time would be better spent learning how to write
 >> a linux device driver for USB.
> >
> > Well, the drivers do exist already. What lacks so far is the connection
 > between them and the speakup.

Does speakup really have to do anything to talk to a USB synth? I've 
written udev rules to create device files for USB devices. When you plug 
in a USB device, the kernel sees it and creates a device file. You can 
watch the messages scroll by if you tail the syslog while plugging in 
the USB device. Then you can take the identification strings and write a 
udev rule to create another device file for that device. People do this 
all the time so that every time they plug their thumb drive in, it gets 
a name like /dev/thumb. What if I wrote a udev rule to create a 
/dev/speakup_ltlk and fooled speakup into thinking it had successfully 
loaded the speakup_ltlk module?