Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751287AbdCQNEV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:04:21 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:38654 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751072AbdCQNET (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:04:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:02:08 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Samuel Thibault Cc: Petr Mladek , Aleksey Makarov , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does braille console work? Message-ID: <20170317090208.437d4e10@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20170317094051.lpdu4pjloboaikgr@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> References: <1bb67bee-b8f9-2835-725a-f36fda085216@linaro.org> <20170317005355.xwym3zpamym3rwp6@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> <20170317093544.GN3977@pathway.suse.cz> <20170317094051.lpdu4pjloboaikgr@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 21 On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:40:51 +0100 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Petr Mladek, on ven. 17 mars 2017 10:35:44 +0100, wrote: > > Anyway, the feature is not usable at the moment. Samuel, would > > you be able to fix and test it, please? > > Sure, it's already on my TODO list, I will do when I get the time. > Yes please. There's no reason to keep that code if it's been broken for 3 years and nobody noticed. In fact, keeping it may actually make it more difficult to add accessibility in the future. Methodologies may change and the old broken code (that we've been complicating all other code with), may actually become a hindrance to a new methodology. Either keep it updated, or get rid of it. Getting rid of the complications it adds to the core code, and let the core code become more simplified may actually end up being easier to add accessibility in the future, than keeping the old cruft around. -- Steve