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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:59:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_cd.h src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c src/sys/sys cdrio.h src/usr.sbin/burncd burncd.8 burncd.c src/usr.sbin/cdcontrol cdcontrol.1 cdcontrol.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211200958240.64403-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <1037784427.80799.1.camel@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On 20 Nov 2002, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 02:29, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:18:59PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > 
> > > See the HEADSUP on stable@ and ports@.  Only people who were using the
> > > FreeBSD-only ioctls need to change, simply by multiplying by 177 (the
> > > kernel was doing this conversion before).  API is preserved although units
> > > have changed.
> > 
> > Also, what will happen when someone uses an old 4.x binary that calls
> > these ioctls on 5.0?
> 
> This should be backed out in both current and stable. A new ioctl number
> should be allocated for the new behaviour and the old behaviour
> supported for the old ioctl number. Preserving the ABI for this is easy
> and it prevents problems for users.

See previous message where I built a small patch to preserve previous
behavior.  I am running it by the two maintainers and got one "ok"
already.  If the other approves, your suggestion will be unnecessary.

-Nate


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