linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20080204181512.GR5205@implementation.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:15:12 +0000
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

Greg KH, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 10:06:17 -0800, a écrit :
> > However, they share the same low-level primitives: the recently added
> > keyboard and vc notifiers, screen_glyph(), inverse_translate(),
> > kd_mksound, etc.
> 
> I guess I'm worried that the hooks that you add here will not be usable
> by speakup, and we'll have to add more in places close to this, but not
> quite the same.

Actually, speakup already just use these and no others.

> I know speaking and "showing" are two different things, but they both
> require the same data flow going into them in order to achieve their
> goals, I just don't want to see this work being done without considering
> both needs.

I _am_ considering both needs.  Actually, most of the recent commits to
SpeakUp are mines :)

> But, if you feel that both will work properly with these limited
> exports, I have no objections.

They already both do :)

Samuel
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/