Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:15:12 +0000
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support
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Greg KH, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 10:06:17 -0800, a ?crit :
> > However, they share the same low-level primitives: the recently added
> > keyboard and vc notifiers, screen_glyph(), inverse_translate(),
> > kd_mksound, etc.
> 
> I guess I'm worried that the hooks that you add here will not be usable
> by speakup, and we'll have to add more in places close to this, but not
> quite the same.

Actually, speakup already just use these and no others.

> I know speaking and "showing" are two different things, but they both
> require the same data flow going into them in order to achieve their
> goals, I just don't want to see this work being done without considering
> both needs.

I _am_ considering both needs.  Actually, most of the recent commits to
SpeakUp are mines :)

> But, if you feel that both will work properly with these limited
> exports, I have no objections.

They already both do :)

Samuel
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