Status of kernel

[John Covici]

What do you think of Dave  Borowski's mods to speakup?  He says he is
working on a driver  to enable speakup to open any synth such as
usbserial, etc.?  What are your thoughts on how to get this to work?

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:10:32 -0500,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Okash Khawaja, on Thu 10 Nov 2016 15:02:21 +0000, wrote:
> > I am currently studying speakup's kernel code. Can someone guide me what is
> > it's current status?
> 
> It's currently in the staging part of the kernel, which is already a
> good thing since it gets updated as the kernel API changes.
> 
> > - What needs to be done in order to mainline it? I have read the TODO file but
> > not sure how up-to-date it is.
> 
> Its first item might be set to "update TODO" :)
> 
> About the "how to communicate with the serial ports" item, I do have
> hints how it could be done, I just never got around finding the time to
> hack it down.
> 
> > - Are there existing plans to do work on the driver?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> > - Although the code is fairly readable, is there any documentation for the
> > driver?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> > Please add anything else you think is relevant.
> 
> Make sure to synchronize with the speakup list. Perhaps better
> explicitly Cc us like you just did, to catch our eyes, I for instance
> don't necessarily follow the speakup list that closely unfortunately.
> 
> Samuel
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