[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2012/08/15 at 17:29 -0400] >This issue can be mitigated greatly by making the eSpeak driver speech >processing call into a thread of its own. Attached is a patch to make >the eSpeak driver threaded.
I rather suspect that a more general solution would be better than dealing with each driver on an individual basis. >Is this enough to ensure the repeated key problem will never happen >again? No, because any otehr speech driver, or even, I suppose, a slow braille device, could cause the same symptoms. >Maybe the Linux keyboard filter code would benefit from being >moved into a thread of its own as well. Yes, I've often thought that this should be done. I just haven't done it yet. Are we that the point where we should just assume that Linux has Posix threads, even in boot environments? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | 2011 May 21 is the End of Salvation. EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://Mielke.cc/now.html http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
