Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

OK, thought you had to rebuild the kernel from source. I tried it a few 
years ago (circa 2.4 kernel on redhat 7.xxx or something) and didn't get 
very far.  If modules can be dynamically added/removed, then speakup should 
be in the kernel from the start.
-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina rednote net>
To: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
Cc: "Janina Sajka" <janina rednote net>; "Alex Snow" 
<lists h14me homelinux net>; <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments


> Rich Caloggero writes:
> > >In any case, integrating Speakup into a distribution should not be a
> > >distribution level task. It needs to just be there--in the kernel that
> > >each distro starts with.
> >
> > I agree. I also think that people might be nervous about extra stuff in 
> > the
> > kernel.  To this end, perhaps an option to remove it,  in initial
>
>
> Rich:
>
> Do you not understand how kernel modules work? The command rmmod removes
> modules. You can do it in a running kernel. The whole point of
> modularization is to allow adding and removing modules as needed.
> Janina