Draft opinion review for PSARC 2008/097 sosd: SCSI Object-based Storage Device driver

[Mark Martin]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:

> Mark Martin wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Is there any harm in leaving those interface definitions in?  I can
>> certainly remove that whole "Imported Interfaces" table, but I'm (privately)
>> debating the value of and feasibility of a project that might be able to
>> scrape some of that information out of the entire public caselog.  In this
>> case, that's very detailed import information that may get lost.  Or perhaps
>> scrapping the published caselog documentation has no value and automated
>> tools to check the actual code/binaries would be of more value anyway.
>>
>
> There's no harm, that I can see, but little value either.  Since the API is
> public, we'd never be able to remove or change it anyway, because we
> couldn't find all consumers.
>
> In fact, we can't find such consumers anyway via case logs, since the
> normal practice is not to declare public Committed APIs that are imported.


Fair enough.  Thanks again.  Updated revision here --
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~devnull/PSARC/2008/097/psarc_2008_097_draft_opinion.txt
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