[opensolaris-summit] driver limits [was Re: My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics]

Garrett D'Amore Garrett.Damore at Sun.COM
Wed Sep 26 21:44:40 PDT 2007


John Plocher wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>
>> I'd assume that:
>>     To:    psarc-ext
>>     CC:   lsarc
>>     CC:   wsarc
>>     ...
>>     CC:   <submitter>
>>
>> Should be OK.  (John?)
>
> The problem is that external people can't send mail to WSARC and LSARC
> aliases directly, so those ARC members would be cut off from all external
> replies.
>
> The "best" answer right now is to create the case as a PSARC case,
> put the wsarc and lsarc aliases in the IAM:Interest list and send
> the mail to PSARC-ext only, letting the mail subsystem handle the
> notification and inclusion of the other ARCs.

I really believe that this is only a PSARC issue.  I doubt very much 
that other ARCs look at software that imports both the DDI and 
non-public kernel APIs.

And note that I'm really only talking about *device drivers*.... not 
other kernel software.

    -- Garrett
>
>   -John
>
>
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