Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:36:57 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs) Message-ID: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:28:32 -0400." <4491C2F0.6000007@rogers.com>
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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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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