Re: kern/55958: pciback.hide parsing error

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55958; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Cc: Aleksey Arens <aza.sea.agenda%gmail.com@localhost>, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/55958: pciback.hide parsing error
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:58:45 +0100

 On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 09:55:08PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > > diff --git a/sys/arch/x86/include/bootinfo.h b/sys/arch/x86/include/bootinfo.h
 > > index 9d0ee542d892..6b3d967e1a7e 100644
 > > --- a/sys/arch/x86/include/bootinfo.h
 > > +++ b/sys/arch/x86/include/bootinfo.h
 > > @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct btinfo_biosgeom {
 > >  };
 > > 
 > >  struct bi_modulelist_entry {
 > > -       char path[80];
 > > +       char path[256];
 > >         int type;
 > >         int len;
 > >         uint32_t base;
 > > 
 > > ---8<---
 > 
 > i'm not sure we can do this without a compatibility issue ...
 
 I think we could define and provide both structures from a new
 bootloader by e.g. renaming BTINFO_MODULELIST to
 BTINFO_COMPAT_MODULELIST and giving BTINFO_MODULELIST a new value.
 
 Martin