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

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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