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

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sun Jun 18 08:43:25 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:40:16AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> well.. you can never be sure but my point stands still - COMPAT_43TTY is
> basically a bunch of tty-related ioctls so I dont see why apps like (gtar
> which doesnt touch tty at all) should fail..

"shouldn't" and "won't" are rarely equal in software engineering,
expecially when dealing with crufty old code that probably included
*.h "just in case".

mcl


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