PSARC 2007/601 FastTrack timeout 12/05/2007 - "spec.txt" added to the materials directory

[Artem Kachitchkine]

> Heh.  That's a nice theory.  Except for one "itsy bitsy little issue".  
> Except for drivers for a few well known classes, you *cannot* adhere to 
> the DDI simply because there is no DDI compliant way to populate /dev!  
> The devfsadm plugin framework is clearly not public  (and its entirely
> unsuited to being so right now...

"It is true that managing of the /dev namespace could be made easier 
(esp. for leaf driver developers). I believe the issue is well 
recognized among the I/O framework folks, however the work started by 
the devname project is affected by lack of resources." :)

The advantage is that when/if someone needs to change devfs, they would 
only need to look in "well known" places like devfsadm and libdevinfo, 
and not chase consumers all around the place (they would have to anyway, 
but minimizing the number of such places is everyone's job).

-Artem