Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/gpt

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Nov 30,  8:34am, Christos Zoulas wrote:
} On Nov 29, 11:22pm, jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:
} 
} |      Maybe so, but one could just lift the source code from -current
} | and plunk it on an older version of NetBSD and it would just work.
} | Now, one can not do that.  Having to update the kernel for a
} | relatively small userland utility is kind of annoying.
} 
} That's the only disadvantage. Even if you wanted to do this, I am
} saying I would prefer that the pullup was done to the kernel to
} support the missing ioctls. And we are talking only about NetBSD-6
} where the utility is not that useful, since NetBSD-7 has them. Are
} you really planning to support gpt disks on NetBSD-6?

     Uh, what a silly question.  As you should know, gpt(8) first
appeared in NetBSD 4.0.  NetBSD-6 has always supported gpt disks.
My plan was to pullup everything up to the point of toolification
to netbsd-6.  However, some useful changes have been made since
then which should also be pulled up.  These changes will likely
have to be pulled up by patch now.  Even if the new ioctls are
pulled up to netbsd-6, I would prefer gpt(8) to be able to use the
older methods, since that doesn't need a kernel upgrade.

}-- End of excerpt from Christos Zoulas