[ogb-discuss] Device Driver Community

[Alan DuBoff]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Yes.  Although, its important that Max's work actually be accurate. I've not 
> reviewed his info, so I don't know whether it is or not.

I think that Max's work is accurate, and he's taught many classes at SunU 
on writing device drivers...for that matter Alta Elstad is the one who 
re-worked "Writing Device Drivers".

> Correct.  But in theory we could have our own child gate, with our own 
> putback rules, although ultimately getting anything from _that_ gate into 
> Nevada would have to follow Nevada rules.
>
> I'm not sure I see a lot of merit in having a child gate though.

We definitely don't need our own gate, far from it. I only want to see 
some control over the actual code that gets putback, from our community 
before it goes to ARC and/or c-team, or however that will work in 
OpenSolaris as a community.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group