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

[Samuel Thibault]

John G Heim, on Fri 11 Mar 2016 12:59:40 -0600, wrote:
> >> 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?

Yes, it needs to be able to talk with the USB serial driver.

That's a recurring TODO item: see with kernel serial maintainers how
to do that properly. As I said before in another thread, an outreachy
intern is currently having a look.

Samuel