2008/043 [Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]

[Freeman.Liu at sun.com]

Hi, Glenn,

Thanks for your review. Comments inline.

Glenn Skinner wrote:

>    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:31:44 +0800
>    From: Frank Che <Frank.Che at sun.com>
>    Subject: PSARC 2008/043 Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris
>
>    ...
>      In phase 1, the device file "/dev/dsp" provided by OSS drivers
>      is a project private interface and only root user is able to
>      access it.  No new interface will be published in this phase.
>      Although HD audio driver is replaced by OSS hdaudio driver,
>      other SADA drivers will not be replaced in phase 1.  Drivers of
>      the two different frameworks can work together.  SADA framework
>      will not be removed, either.  Detailed information of SADA can
>      be found in man pages:  audio(7I), mixer(7I) and
>      audio_support(7I).
>
>Do you intend to promote /dev/dsp to higher visibility in a future
>phase of the project?  If not, you should consider removing it and
>have references to it refer instead to the corresponding node in
>/devices (which already has private visibility).
>  
>
Yes. Visibility and stability of /dev/dsp will be promoted in the 
following phases.

>When you say that only the root user can access /dev/dsp, do you mean
>to say that the underlying device file is owned by root and has
>permission 600?  Or does the device's driver make explicit permission
>checks?
>  
>
It is owned by root and has permission 600.


Best regards
  Freeman

>[I've seen no resolution to the question of whether
>opensound-discuss at opensolaris.org should be used in addition to the
>psarc-ext alias, so I haven't changed addressing information in this
>response.]
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>		-- Glenn
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