Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:22:01 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 tty processing ? Message-ID: <12549.1088158921@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:59:54 PDT." <200406241859.54810.peter@wemm.org>
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In message <200406241859.54810.peter@wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >On Wednesday 23 June 2004 04:27 pm, David Schultz wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > Do we need the COMPAT_43 tty processing in 5-STABLE ? >> >> FWIW, I used to run with COMPAT_43 disabled entirely. I think the >> only breakage I noticed was that the Linuxolator didn't work >> anymore because of a number of `#ifdef COMPAT_43's in the socket >> code that linux.ko depends on. > >These should probably be broken out as COMPAT_OLDSOCK, whih is implied >by the linuxulator or COMPAT_43 or the like. Or better yet: made unncessary in the linuxolator ? >These days we could probably just kill it entirely and replace it with a >short recipe for converting code. eg: list what the new names for >the flags and modes are. Most programs do little more than either run >in the default line processing mode, or drop into raw mode via >cfmakeraw() and friends, possibly with a couple of tweaks to the >generated termios settings. > >No, I'm not volunteering to extract this code of a QIC 6150 tape that I >have with it on. I'd sooner help delete it from src/sys than revive >that monster. :-) I've asked our ports-meister to run a build without the COMPAT_43 tty code and the ports crew to get rid of -lcompat in the ports to the extent possible and I fully expect COMPAT_43 tty processing to not be in 5-STABLE. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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