From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 16 06:28:46 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 4E33816A474; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:28:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED0343D48; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:28:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from circe (circe.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.36]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J0X0052UWNUM2@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de>; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: from talos.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.22]) by circe (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:42 +0200 (MEST) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/1) with ESMTP id k5G6SfBG004179; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:41 +0200 Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Fr7ow-0007FV-2A; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:42 +0200 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C522C3F431; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:41 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway Message-id: <20060616062841.GA2193@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Beech Rintoul , Mike Jakubik , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-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: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:28:46 -0000 --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--