Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:41 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs) Message-ID: <20060616062841.GA2193@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:20:49PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 comm= ented=20 > > out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breaka= ge on=20 > > either 6.x or -current. >=20 > 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. >=20 I think it would be helpful to do another run if possible and put the results online somewhere. That could significantly speed up the whole issue. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEkk+ZbHYXjKDtmC0RAo5WAKCtqjk1o088MhlMko8bDISoTj+EJwCcC4mT PZmDqoxzXKNSGxrkrF/tcNM= =snU8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--
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