Speakup delta for gutsy (Was Re: Current feisty/upstream delta)

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:14 +0200, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 16:22 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:32:16AM EST, Ben Collins wrote:
> >>     
> >>> - Speakup integration. Just hold this off for now.
> >>>       
> >> Speakup is undergoing some major changes upstream, and also needs a lot
> >> of work done to it to interract with the rest of the kernel, as well as
> >> serial ports, in a sane fashion. The accessibility team is also
> >> considering whether a userspace solution may be better in the long term.
> >>
> >> As it currently stands, it is certainly not ready for mainline, and is
> >> still very much a "works for me" pile of code.
> >>     
> >
> > Right, it got put in with the delta.
> >
> > However, we do need to address this for gutsy release. Not so much
> > getting this into mainline, but how we'll get rid of this local delta to
> > our tree. Right now, our gutsy main tree is pristine. I'd like to
> > continue this trend :)
> >
> > Speakup is one of the most invasive non-upstream patches we have in our
> > tree. Can we discuss how to address this? (better now than later)
> >
> >   
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Just spoke with Luke about this on IRC. We are fine with you removing it 
> from the kernel for gutsy.
> 
> We had originally expected more involvement from speakup upstream in 
> cleaning up the code so we could get it into mainline, but there was 
> little response. It seems speakup users have been compiling kernels for 
> years and are generally happy to keep doing that. If Ubuntu continues to 
> stay close to the mainline tree (and speakup keeps up with it) then 
> compiling your own should be relatively easy.

Thanks for getting back to me. We'll let it go and hope things work out
upstream.

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