Re: kfreebsd-9 status

[Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Robert Millan wrote:

> 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.


Hmm, don't see a bug# to reply to (but may have missed it); it seems that 
upstream had decided that ABI breaking was a bad thing, proposing the 
patch linked here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/120133
but, it was never committed.
I have sent a reminder; we shall see what happens.

-Ben Kaduk