strcompat 0.9.2.7 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.7 of the STREAMS Compatibility Modules strcompat package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.7 of the STREAMS Compatibility Modules strcompat package. The OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility package provides the ability for Linux Fast-STREAMS to exhibit source level compatibility with a wide range of UNIX STREAMS implementations. Also, it provides LiS source, and some 2.18.0 binary, compatibility for Linux Fast-STREAMS. The objective of the package is to provide source level compatibility with a wide range of UNIX STREAMS implementations permitting drivers and modules to port easily to Linux Fast-STREAMS from any other STREAMS implementation, making it possible to release drivers and modules from a single UNIX code base with minimal localisms for Linux.

This is another separate OpenSS7 Project release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS Compatibility package. The package was originally present in the Linux Fast-STREAMS streams-0.7a.2 release package, but has been separated for six releases. These compatibility modules provide source level compatibility with AIX, HPUX, OSF/1, MacOT, Mentat, SUX, Solaris, SUPER/UX, IRIX, LiS, UnixWare, UXP/V and SVR 4.2 STREAMS. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation in an autoconf tarball.

This release is a stable, production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.F). It deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting bugs on previous releases.

This release is primarily a maintenance release.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

• Minor documentation corrections.
• Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back to GPL.
• License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
• Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.
• Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets.
• Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets.
• Build corrections for recent RHAS4 kernels that define irq_handler_t with a 3 argument function template.
• Build corrections for XEN kernels that define paddr_t.
• Fixes for older 2.4 kernels.
• Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and 2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.
• Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
• Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages.
• Updated references database for manual pages and roff(1) documents.
• Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
• Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.
• Significant rework of the internal implementation of the mpscompat(9) Mentat Portable STREAMS compatability functions that also affects the behaviour of the corresponding osfcompat(9), aixcompat(9), maccompat(9) and hpuxcompat(9) functions that depend on them. Added documentation for mi_acquire(9), mi_acquire_sleep(9) and mi_release(9); also mi_open_grab(9) and mi_close_put(9).
• A number of difficulties were discovered by the OpenSS7 Project in the MPS compatability functions. See BUGS in the release, or Bugs in the manual, for more information. These mpscompat(9) functions are now used extensively by modules and drivers under the OpenSS7 Project in favor of the previously used os7compat(9) functions.
• Added a test driver and module for the purpose of testing the MPS compatability functions.

This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) Version 3. The release is available as an autoconf tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the strcompat package page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release, or Release Notes in the manual, for more information. Also, see the strcompat.pdf manual in the release (also in html).

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