From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 21:20:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA3216A581; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:20:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CCF43D6E; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:20:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A9D1A4E88; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 59D6B52337; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:20:49 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Beech Rintoul Message-ID: <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Mike Jakubik , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:20:53 -0000 --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:59:38PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <4491C2F0.6000007@rogers.com>, Mike Jakubik writes: > > >What about COMPAT_43TTY? Is this still needed, how exactly does it > > >affect the system? > > > > It adds a bunch of ancient-compatible ioctls to the kernel. > > > > It is, as a principle, not needed, but thanks to the many variants > > of "sh configure" employed in usr/ports, a quite large number of > > ports go "Ohh, this is BSD, I'd better use the old ioctls" and > > break if you don't offer them. >=20 > Is there a way to easily identify these ports? I've had both lines commen= ted=20 > out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage= on=20 > either 6.x or -current. I did a full build for phk some time ago, I don't remember how many broke but it was enough to make it a significant (but perhaps not difficult) task to fix them. Kris --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEkc8uWry0BWjoQKURAthRAKCQT3zA1E25p4SMasPartUspj7VagCfU4wV /4vEA/ZqBYAbD1TzjJgS1Cc= =utkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--