Re: [PATCH2] Basic braille screen reader support

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Hello,

Could the basic braille screen reader be pushed to 2.6.26?

Else, could at least the patch below be applied, so that people can
compile external accessibility modules a lot more easily? (no need to
patch vanilla kernel, which is a huge win for people who already have a
hard time just using their computer...)

Samuel

Export functions typically used by screen reading modules.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/consolemap.c linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/consolemap.c
--- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/consolemap.c	2008-01-25 09:32:05.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/consolemap.c	2008-02-03 22:27:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@
 			return p->inverse_translations[m][glyph];
 	}
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inverse_translate);
 
 static void update_user_maps(void)
 {
diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/keyboard.c linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/keyboard.c
--- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2008-01-25 09:32:06.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2008-02-04 03:44:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
 const int NR_TYPES = ARRAY_SIZE(max_vals);
 
 struct kbd_struct kbd_table[MAX_NR_CONSOLES];
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kbd_table);
 static struct kbd_struct *kbd = kbd_table;
 
 struct vt_spawn_console vt_spawn_con = {
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@
 	} else
 		kd_nosound(0);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kd_mksound);
 
 /*
  * Setting the keyboard rate.
diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/vt.c linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/vt.c
--- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/char/vt.c	2008-01-25 09:32:06.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/char/vt.c	2008-02-03 22:27:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -3982,6 +3982,7 @@
 		c |= 0x100;
 	return c;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(screen_glyph);
 
 /* used by vcs - note the word offset */
 unsigned short *screen_pos(struct vc_data *vc, int w_offset, int viewed)