New features for speakup

[Samuel Thibault]

David, on Thu 05 May 2016 19:06:33 -0400, wrote:
> The next thing I am working is to get away from
> requiring an on-board uart and instead, use any serial/usb device
> available in the initial dev-fs.

About this: the conclusion I had come to about how to do this is that
speakup should be defining a line discipline.  Then, the question is:
how does speakup set the line discipline from kernel land?  A userland
daemon could be used that opens the device and uses ioctl to set the
discipline, and perhaps that's a first step.

Ideally the speakup driver should be able to open the device itself and
I don't think we have a way for this yet, but I also don't think it will
appear magically if we don't push for adding it. Please see this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-serial&m=145728645315436&w=2

In any case, please synchronize with Shraddha Barke
<shraddha.6596 at gmail.com> who is already working on this.

Samuel