From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: speakup bug
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:26:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120304002655.GE6117@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD8CB954D8084F998E24C4558E41C627@hinkle>
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 06:01:07PM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
>
> Do you recall if they gave a reason for not wanting to use the serial layer?
> I don't even know what the serial layer is (although the name is descriptive
> enough and I can guess).But I would think they'd have had some reason for
> not wanting to do that.
Looking at the code, I'm going to guess that it's largely historical.
I'd guess that original core code was originally written for MS-DOS
(main.c? RLY?), and once they got it working, they never went back to
fix things. Even if it wasn't the most efficient way to do things, I
suspect most of the blind community didn't care once it was working
--- and they probably didn't have anyone who really understood the tty
line discpline layer, since it wasn't very well documented.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-04 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-03 17:18 speakup bug John G. Heim
2012-03-03 17:39 ` Alan Cox
2012-03-03 22:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 0:01 ` John G. Heim
2012-03-04 0:18 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 0:21 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 0:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 0:43 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 0:44 ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04 1:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04 0:26 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-03-04 2:03 ` John G. Heim
2012-03-04 21:06 ` Alan Cox
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