Re: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:05:44 -0800 "Chris H" <bsd-lists_at_bsdforge.com> wrote

> Greetings, all.
> Apologies in advance, if this is better suited for
> freebsd-hackers_at_. But given this is only relevant to CURRENT,
> I hoped it would be OK.
> 
> OK. I'm attempting to build an i386 development box on -CURRENT.
> I'm stuck using a legacy nvidia card (NV-34). Yea, I know. But
> that's what I have. Anyway, that necessitates my maintaining a
> local copy of the now defunct x11/nvidia-driver-173 port.
> I've cobbled/refined all the necessary patches; save one.
> Which is what beings me here. It appears that the d_thread_t
> compatibility shim provided in 5.0 was dumped in r277897.
> Sadly, as a result I receive the following, when attempting
> to build the port (in spite of having COMPAT_FREEBSD5 built
> in to my custom kernel):
> 
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> ebs d.h:459:68: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> int    nvidia_handle_ioctl   (struct cdev *, u_long, caddr_t, int, d_thread_t
> *)
> ;
>                                                                    ^
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> ebs d.h:463:46: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> int    nvidia_open_ctl       (struct cdev *, d_thread_t *);
>                                              ^
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> ebs d.h:464:69: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> int    nvidia_open_dev       (struct nvidia_softc *, struct cdev *,
> d_thread_t *
> );
>                                                                     ^
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> ebs d.h:465:46: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> int    nvidia_close_ctl      (struct cdev *, d_thread_t *);
>                                              ^
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-173/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.39/src/nv-fre
> ebs d.h:466:69: error: unknown type name 'd_thread_t'
> int    nvidia_close_dev      (struct nvidia_softc *, struct cdev *,
> d_thread_t *
> );
> 
> Is there any way around this?
> 
Got it!

OK. Just in case anyone besides me cares, performing an

s/d_thread_t/struct thread/g

on src/nv-freebsd.h && src/nvidia_subr.c will give it to you.

Hope this helps!

--Chris