HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jun 15 20:37:00 UTC 2006
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.
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