Basic braille screen reader support

This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support.  This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g.  on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig b/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1264c4b98094
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+menuconfig ACCESSIBILITY
+	bool "Accessibility support"
+	---help---
+	  Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
+if ACCESSIBILITY
+config A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE
+	bool "Console on braille device"
+	depends on VT
+	depends on SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
+	---help---
+	  Enables console output on a braille device connected to a 8250
+	  serial port. For now only the VisioBraille device is supported.
+
+	  To actually enable it, you need to pass option
+	  console=brl,ttyS0
+	  to the kernel. Options are the same as for serial console.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
+endif # ACCESSIBILITY