PSARC 2008/443 Driver for LSI MPT2.0 compliant SAS 2.0 controller

[Darren J Moffat]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Frank Che wrote:
>> The project team would like to change the release binding of this 
>> project from micro to patch, for back-porting purpose. If there is any 
>> concern on this, please let the project team know.
>>
>> I think this change is qualified for self review. If there is concern, 
>> I can upgrade it to a fast track.
> 
> I think since you requested micro binding originally, this is trivially 
> obvious.  Indeed, I think many people these days treat micro binding as 
> synonymous with patch binding.   (We haven't had a "micro" release since 
> Solaris 2.5.1.)
> 
> For C-Team's point of view, I think you can just go ahead and proceed as 
> if you originally requested patch binding.

There is a very important difference between micro and patch though and 
that is the delivery mechanism.  A micro release can be assumed to be 
fresh installer or upgraded to but a patch release could need the 
feature applied by 'patchadd' as well as being upgraded to in a fresh 
bitted release. This case introduces a new package (SUNWmptsas) so as 
long as that can be properly dealt with in the patch release train I 
have no problem with the change of binding.

Also for drivers in particular the difference between micro and patch 
can be important if the device is needed as a boot device (which I 
assume would be the case for some hardware with the driver form this case).

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Darren J Moffat