sg3 utilities 1.25 [PSARC/2008/683]

[James Carlson]

Matthew Jacob writes:
> But the ARC process is of necessity a somewhat heavyweight process (when 
> it suits it- look at the automatic closed approved for the IOMMU case 
> for the opposite). This means that people have to be fairly strongly 
> motivated to do the right thing and use that process. Obvious changes 
> and integrations that would make Solaris a developer's favorite didn't 
> necessarily find a champion within Sun because it does and takes real 
> work to think these things through. This does now seem to be changing,  
> but there is perhaps more tension between ARC and getting things "into" 
> Solaris (for some measure of "into") than still should be.

That seems silly.  I fear C-teams and the general wrath of my fellow
developers for having broken something much more than I do any open
review in the ARC.

If "obvious" integrations aren't happening because the ARC is too
"heavy," then I think that's actually a symptom of a different set of
linked problems: we've got too many system-wide features in Solaris
that are (a) implemented differently from other operating systems (aka
"innovative") and (b) not supported by much existing open source
software.  There's a price to pay for being different, and this is it.

Those aren't problems we can wave a wand to remove or just wish away.

-- 
James Carlson, Solaris Networking              <james.d.carlson at sun.com>
Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive        71.232W   Vox +1 781 442 2084
MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757   42.496N   Fax +1 781 442 1677