Identifying special patches [PSARC/2009/012 FastTrack timeout 01/16/2009]

[Jonathan O'Brien]

Jerry Jelinek wrote:
> Jonathan O'Brien wrote:
>>
>> Gerald Jelinek wrote:
>>>
>>> EXPORTED INTERFACES
>>>
>>>     Patch ID range 9xxxxx            Committed
>>>     reserved for special patches
>>>
>>
>> Fujitsu has been known to release patches with IDs in
>> the range of 9xxxxx. I don't think they ever asked
>> anyone if they could do this, but you may not want to
>> risk colliding with their patches.
> 
> 
> Thanks for this information.  Do you know any more
> about this?  Did Fujitsu just usurp part of the patch
> ID namespace or is there some group within Sun that
> we need to talk to about this?  Do all of their patches
> begin with 9 or are they all over the map?  Depending
> on what we can find out about this, we may need to
> consider a different solution.

I've asked Fujitsu to clarify, but the people
in the US do not know all the details. They are
going to ask FJ Japan and will get back to us.

jonathan