Re: kern/53491: Bizarre definition of POWER_IOC_GET_TYPE_WITH_LOSSAGE

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/53491; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/53491: Bizarre definition of POWER_IOC_GET_TYPE_WITH_LOSSAGE
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:42:37 +0700

     Date:        Wed,  1 Aug 2018 16:50:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        "Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20180801165001.6617C7A421%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  POWER_IOC_GET_TYPE_WITH_LOSSAGE is indeed for backwards compatibility
 
 OK, thanks, that makes sense.
 
   |  There should probably be some annotations made in the source that this
   |  is the case..
 
 Agreed...
 
 And I wonder if it needs to be defined at all #ifndef KERNEL ?    I will check.
 
 The other two do not have that excuse I believe.
 
 kre