linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:30:35 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

Greg KH, le Thu 23 Aug 2007 03:04:02 -0700, a écrit :
> > I mean: yes, with these three patches, speakup will work fine.
> 
> 3 patches?  I only saw 2.  Or do you mean the modifications of the 3
> files?

Maybe you missed the keyboard notification patch which is already in
-mm.

> The patches look sane but you should change the global symbols to play
> nicer in the namespace.  Care to respin them together with this change?

You mean inverse_translate and screen_glyph?

> > The biggest change we'll have to do in speakup is the way it accesses
> > the serial port, which is really dirty for now, but that's an internal
> > matter.
> 
> Yeah, that shouldn't be that tough to do.

Well, the biggest problem is that we'd like to output on serial _before_
/dev gets mounted.

> It doesn't look like these changes handle scrolling of the console, do
> they?

Ah, indeed, speakup doesn't seem to handle it, that's why I forgot it in
the patch.  I'll see what needs to be done.

Thanks,
Samuel
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