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

[Christian Brueffer]

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 at 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

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

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