system. It allows blind users to interact with applications on the
linux console by means of synthetic speech.
-Currently, speakup has several issues we know of.
+Currently, speakup has one issue we know of.
-The first issue has to do with the way speakup communicates with serial
-ports. Currently, we communicate directly with the hardware
-ports. This however conflicts with the standard serial port drivers,
-which poses various problems. This is also not working for modern hardware
-such as PCI-based serial ports. Also, there is not a way we can
-communicate with USB devices. The current serial port handling code is
-in serialio.c in this directory.
-
-Some places are currently using in_atomic() because speakup functions
-are called in various contexts, and a couple of things can't happen
-in these cases. Pushing work to some worker thread would probably help,
-as was already done for the serial port driving part.
-
-There is a duplication of the selection functions in selections.c. These
-functions should get exported from drivers/char/selection.c (clear_selection
-notably) and used from there instead.
-
-The kobjects may have to move to a more proper place in /sys. The
-discussion on lkml resulted to putting speech synthesizers in the
-"speech" class, and the speakup screen reader itself into
-/sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon0/speakup, the nasty path being handled by
-userland tools.
-
-Another issue seems to only happen on SMP systems. It seems
-that text in the output buffer gets garbled because a lock is not set.
-This bug happens regularly, but no one has been able to find a situation
-which produces it consistently.
+It seems to only happen on SMP systems. It seems that text in the output buffer
+gets garbled because a lock is not set. This bug happens regularly, but no one
+has been able to find a situation which produces it consistently.
Patches, suggestions, corrections, etc, are definitely welcome.
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-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org.
-
+okash.khawaja@gmail.com, w.d.hubbs@gmail.com, chris@the-brannons.com,
+kirk@reisers.ca and samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org.