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Re: kfreebsd-9 status



Package: kfreebsd-image-9.0-0-amd64
Version: 9.0~svn223109-0.1
Severity: grave

2011/6/17 Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>:
>>> $ sudo kbdcontrol -l us.iso.kbd
>>> kbdcontrol: setting keymap: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>> I guess this means we need to patch a compatibility kludge in
>> either freebsd-utils 8.2 or kfreebsd-9.  Which package should
>> this bug be filed on?
>
> It seems be due to this:
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=197330
>
> It can be solved when 9.x ABI is stable in freebsd-utils 9.0
> by conditional paths of code.
> I would keep it for now under kfreebsd-9.
>
> Upstream could do it properly, without ABI breaking, i.e. by
>
> #define GIO_KEYMAP_OLD   _IOR('k', 6, keymap_t)
> #define PIO_KEYMAP_OLD   _IOW('k', 7, keymap_t)
> ...
> #define GIO_KEYMAP       _IO('k', 16)
> #define PIO_KEYMAP       _IO('k', 17)

Thanks Petr.  Let's make a bug out of this.

-- 
Robert Millan


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