Speakup wont compile in Ubuntu Maverick

[Bill Cox]

I was able to fix two bugs, but the third has me confused still.
First, /usr/bin/module-assistant needs to be modified to look in
/usr/src/linux-headers-<version>/include/generated, rather than
include/linux to find utsrelease.h.  Second, three speakup files need
to include linux/slab.h to have access to kmalloc.  These files are
i18n.c, kobjects.c, and selection.c.  This let's speakup compile.
However, speakup.ko doesn't work because the Maverick kernel does not
provide the k_handle function.

Does anyone know how to enable the k_handle function in the Linux kernel?

Bill