Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Mon Aug 27 2007 - 11:19:01 EST


Hi,

Adrian Bunk, le Sat 25 Aug 2007 03:07:04 +0200, a écrit :
> > If they
> > remain in -mm for some time and people don't complain, well that's good
> > too: at least we know how speakup may hook into the kernel when it gets
> > merged.
> >...
>
> Without any users it's dead code noone uses,

Not so much dead: the notify chain will get called anyway, taking
spinlocks, etc. even if nothing is really called. And people can see
the patches and complain if they think they're bad.

> BTW: Are these the speakup patches that were in -ac five years ago?

No, they are some rework of the way Speakup glues into the kernel.

Samuel
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