ports/105516: [patch] sysutils/asr-utils needs ASR_COMPAT kernel option

[Fabian Wenk]

>Number:         105516
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [patch] sysutils/asr-utils needs ASR_COMPAT kernel option
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 14 10:00:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Fabian Wenk
>Release:        FreeBSD/i386 6.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD schabell.ethz.ch 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Thu Nov  9 19:10:21 CET 2006     root at schabell.ethz.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCHABELL  i386
>Description:
System with Adaptec 3210S (ADAP3210S) and GENERIC kernel with installed sysutils/asr-utils gives the following error:

root at schabell:~# raidutil -L all

Engine connect failed: COMPATILITY number
osdIOrequest : File /dev/rdptr17 Could Not Be Opened

After searching and trying around for a few hours (including creating links in /dev), we saw the comment about ASR_COMPAT kernel option in the webcvs source archive for asr.c [1] (Revision 1.64.2.1).

  [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/asr/asr.c

After adding the ASR_COMPAT option to the kernel it worked. Maybe this option is only need with 6.x FreeBSD, did not try any other version.
>How-To-Repeat:
run raidutil with GENERIC kernel
>Fix:
Add additional file pkg-message to sysutils/asr-utils with this content:

*******************************************************************************
*                                                                             *
* If raidutil gives errors like:                                              *
* Engine connect failed: COMPATILITY number                                   *
* osdIOrequest : File /dev/rdptr17 Could Not Be Opened                        *
*                                                                             *
* Then add "option ASR_COMPAT" into your kernel configuration.                *
*                                                                             *
* To configure and recompile your kernel see:                                 *
* http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html *
*                                                                             *
*******************************************************************************
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