On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 03:12 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: [...] > > Those modules that may be needed at installation time will be added to > > the linux-2.6 package, and the speakup modules are clearly among those. > > I have added patches that put them under drivers/staging: > > > > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/patches/features/all/speakup/ > > > Please review these > > So speakup-add.patch would always be a mere copy of speakup-source? Yes, or you could drop speakup-source. > Speakup-kbuild.patch seems just right and will probably never have to > change. > > > and let the kernel team know whenever speakup needs to be updated. > > Mmm, couldn't linux-2.6 build-depend on speakup-source and just > automatically import the source from there? No, that just moves the problem we have now to linux-2.6. > > Currently staging drivers are only built for x86 because > > many of them are not really portable. I think this is not the case for > > speakup, so let me know if it should be built for more architectures. > > Speakup should build and work on basically all archs (it was tested on > both 32 and 64bit platforms, and both little and big endians). OK. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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