Re: COMPAT_43 tty processing ?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 06/25/04

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    To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:22:01 +0200

    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. 

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