linux-kernel - Re: Staging status of speakup

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Message-ID: <20190316100557.0479c42d@narunkot>
Date:   Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:05:57 +0000
From:   Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@...il.com>
To:     Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Cc:     "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        speakup@...ux-speakup.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
        "William Hubbs" <w.d.hubbs@...il.com>,
        "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@...sers.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Staging status of speakup

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:19:39 -0700
Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com> wrote:

> Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > Finally there is an issue where text in output buffer sometimes gets
> > garbled on SMP systems, but we can continue working on it after the
> > driver is moved out of staging, if that's okay. Basically we need a
> > reproducer of this issue.  
> 
> What kind of reproducer do you need here?  It's straightforward to
> reproduce in casual use, at least with a software synthesizer.  I
> don't know whether it affects hardware synths.
I meant if we can reproduce it at will. Then we will be very close to
the root cause of the race which is what it seems like.

Btw I haven't started investigating it yet.

Thanks,
Okash