Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:20:49 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs) Message-ID: <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com> References: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
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--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--
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