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

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Message-ID: <20070827145912.GB3268@implementation.ifsic.univ-rennes1.fr>
Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:59:12 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dtor@...l.ru, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Hi,

Adrian Bunk, le Sat 25 Aug 2007 03:07:04 +0200, a écrit :
> > If they
> > remain in -mm for some time and people don't complain, well that's good
> > too: at least we know how speakup may hook into the kernel when it gets
> > merged.
> >...
> 
> Without any users it's dead code noone uses,

Not so much dead: the notify chain will get called anyway, taking
spinlocks, etc. even if nothing is really called.  And people can see
the patches and complain if they think they're bad.

> BTW: Are these the speakup patches that were in -ac five years ago?

No, they are some rework of the way Speakup glues into the kernel.

Samuel
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