Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:04:22 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs) Message-ID: <200606151304.42724.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk>
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--nextPart3152729.fiyboQAPv3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. Is there a way to easily identify these ports? I've had both lines commente= d=20 out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage o= n=20 either 6.x or -current. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart3152729.fiyboQAPv3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEkctqR5sEeCt9j00RApGmAKCLcysKEirUOLFL0yytwfH3wlhdxQCeKe7u lt+xZL1+MCLoIu9qRRImRmA= =iOrn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3152729.fiyboQAPv3--
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