From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: speakup bug
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 18:01:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FD8CB954D8084F998E24C4558E41C627@hinkle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120303173916.7eca9391@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
From: Alan Cox
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:39 AM
>> Can anyone tell me how to fix this so it can be patched in the official
>> kernel code?
>
>The proper fix is to make the drivers work via the serial layer properly.
Well, I am not the worlds greatest C programmer but many years ago I wrote
unix
device drivers for a living. Could a reasonably competent person have a
chance of fixing that?
> The speakup people have been told this repeatedly for years and years
> which is why their drivers work on less and less systems and won't run
> with things PCI or USB serial ports, and why they are forever buried in
> staging.
Do you recall if they gave a reason for not wanting to use the serial layer?
I don't even know what the serial layer is (although the name is descriptive
enough and I can guess).But I would think they'd have had some reason for
not wanting to do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-04 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-03 17:18 John G. Heim
2012-03-03 17:39 ` Alan Cox
2012-03-03 22:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 0:01 ` John G. Heim [this message]
2012-03-04 0:18 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 0:21 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 0:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 0:43 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 0:44 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 1:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 0:26 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 2:03 ` John G. Heim
2012-03-04 21:06 ` Alan Cox
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