[PATCH] Allow ndisgen to work without libiconv port

Dave Vasilevsky dave at vasilevsky.ca
Tue Jun 18 17:50:29 UTC 2013


Thanks for taking a look. I think I already linked to the PR, but in
case I forgot it's #179285:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=179285 . The patch should
apply to both STABLE and CURRENT.

-Dave

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Cool! Although I'm trying to set the ndisulator on fire. It just won't
> work with more recent drivers as the NDIS API hasn't been updated.
>
> Submit a PR and we'll try to get it into -HEAD.
>
>
>
> adrian
>
> On 17 June 2013 13:41, Dave Vasilevsky <dave at vasilevsky.ca> wrote:
>> Currently, ndisgen refuses to process UTF-16 .inf files unless
>> libiconv is installed. Unfortunately, if you need ndis you probably
>> don't have a net connection, which makes it hard to get libiconv.
>>
>> This patch works around the problem by integrating a very small UTF-16
>> to UTF-8 converter into ndiscvt. It auto-detects UTF-16 encoding, so
>> it should Just Work on any .inf file.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=179285
>>
>> I'd appreciate testing against various .inf files, to ensure it's
>> working right. Code review would also be great, especially by anyone
>> with a commit bit :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
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