linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH2] Basic braille screen reader support

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Message-ID: <20080424112126.674acf7d@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:21:26 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH2] Basic braille screen reader support

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:39:00 +0100
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Could the basic braille screen reader be pushed to 2.6.26?
> 
> Else, could at least the patch below be applied, so that people can
> compile external accessibility modules a lot more easily? (no need to
> patch vanilla kernel, which is a huge win for people who already have a
> hard time just using their computer...)
> 
> Samuel
> 
> Export functions typically used by screen reading modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>

Seems the right small set of changes to get us started with the real
merge and its useful for the tty cleanup to have these exports visible so
I know what will affect others.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>


> 
> diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/consolemap.c linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/consolemap.c
> --- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/consolemap.c	2008-01-25 09:32:05.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/consolemap.c	2008-02-03 22:27:04.000000000 +0100
> @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@
>  			return p->inverse_translations[m][glyph];
>  	}
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inverse_translate);
>  
>  static void update_user_maps(void)
>  {
> diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/keyboard.c linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/keyboard.c
> --- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2008-01-25 09:32:06.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2008-02-04 03:44:37.000000000 +0100
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
>  const int NR_TYPES = ARRAY_SIZE(max_vals);
>  
>  struct kbd_struct kbd_table[MAX_NR_CONSOLES];
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kbd_table);
>  static struct kbd_struct *kbd = kbd_table;
>  
>  struct vt_spawn_console vt_spawn_con = {
> @@ -260,6 +261,7 @@
>  	} else
>  		kd_nosound(0);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kd_mksound);
>  
>  /*
>   * Setting the keyboard rate.
> diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/vt.c linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/vt.c
> --- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/vt.c	2008-01-25 09:32:06.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/vt.c	2008-02-03 22:27:04.000000000 +0100
> @@ -3982,6 +3982,7 @@
>  		c |= 0x100;
>  	return c;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(screen_glyph);
>  
>  /* used by vcs - note the word offset */
>  unsigned short *screen_pos(struct vc_data *vc, int w_offset, int viewed)
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