From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGNTo-0000tD-6K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:19:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l71NIrGu014938; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:18:53 GMT Received: from canuck.infradead.org (canuck.infradead.org [209.217.80.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l71NGrev012651 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:16:53 GMT Received: from [12.191.103.94] (helo=localhost) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1IGNQy-00039p-GT for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:16:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:09:53 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.22 stable plans Message-ID: <20070801230953.GA4124@kroah.com> References: <46AFC734.2000702@gentoo.org> <20070801215529.GA25528@kroah.com> <46B10A98.4050407@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46B10A98.4050407@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Archives-Salt: 6477f09a-14f0-4bae-ada3-c1ee80e6f67f X-Archives-Hash: 66cb634d344563eb3f4e34d20a3e9088 On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:35:04PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Is speakup finally dropped from the gentoo tree in this release? > > Yes > > > Was there a reason for this? > > It no longer compiles, as the legacy way of accessing serial ports > disappeared, serial is now a platform device. I can't see an easy fix. > > It may return in future, in a different form. I suggested some future > direction here: > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2007-July/044137.html Ok, thanks for pointing me at this. I've already started discussing this with a few of the users on that list. I tried a number of years to get this code into shape enough to get into the main kernel tree. Looks like I'll try this again. thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list