rc(4) deprecation

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 2 17:01:24 UTC 2019


On 12/1/19 9:46 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 9:58 PM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 10:51 PM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> While we're in the process of deprecating stuff -- rc(4) [RISCom/8]
>>> seems like a good candidate; any objections?
>>>
>>> It still uses spltty and appears to be completely broken at
>>> compile-time, perhaps not updated past the ~'08 TTY revamp project?
>>>
>>
>> Ditto all of the above for cy(4) as well.
>>
> 
> IIRC, I didn't remove cy years ago because bde asked me to hold off until
> he could get it converted... You might ask him how that went...
I actually removed cy(4) and then reverted it at bde's request.  bde has
patches for both sio(4) (now gone) and cy(4) that he has sent me before,
but it just didn't bubble up in the priority list. :-/

-- 
John Baldwin


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