PSARC 2008/043 Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris

[Garrett D'Amore]

James Carlson wrote:
> Gary Winiger writes:
>   
>>> This case was closed approved in last PSARC meeting.
>>>
>>> Material was updated and saved as 'spec.txt' in case directory. In the 
>>> updated material, interface name '/dev/dsp' was changed to 
>>> '/dev/private_dsp' so that users won't stumble into it purely by
>>>       
>> 	^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 	Was that really agreed to by the committee?  I thought it was
>> 	a proposal by the project team.  And the suggestion was to
>> 	not expose things that can't be used but if exposure was necessary
>> 	for code complexity reasons the expected name was reasonable to
>> 	expose.
>> 	Did I completely miss the committee's thrust?
>>     
>
> We agreed that as long as it was kept reasonably out of harm's way
> until the stability is firmed up, we didn't much care how that was
> done.
>
> I had assumed that meant "private_dsp," as Garrett said during ARC
> business that he wasn't wild about the decision but that it wasn't
> enough to belabor.
>   

Right.  Its fine for now.  I look forward to having a real, supported 
/dev/dsp in a future phase. :-)

    -- Garrett