Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)

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Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>
Date
15 Jun 2006 21:00:04
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Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)
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200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com

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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 commented
out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage on
either 6.x or -current.

Beech

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