"James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> James C. McPherson wrote:
>>> I want to see mfi integrated into OpenSolaris as soon as
>>> physically possible.
>>>
>>> I've cc'd ogb-discuss because I would like to get the OGB's
>>> input on how we should proceed with the issues that this
>>> RFE raises.
>> 
>> At what stage of the process are you blocked?   Code review?
>> Legal review?  (Is this driver covered by a contributor agreement
>> or a third party license needing OSR review?)   ARC?   C-Team?
>> 
>> We can't ask people to get out of your way unless we know who's
>> in the way.
>
> Hi Alan,
> Sorry, I was rather vague there.
>
> The Open Source Review passed just fine (3 clause BSD).
> David's Contributor Agreement was signed and submitted
> many months ago.
>
> I've been strongly advised by some people within Sun that
> I should not request a PSARC review, let alone NV CTeam
> consideration - all because LSI is supposed to be delivering
> some code real soon now. When I picked up David's RFE, I
> was assured that LSI's code would be coming within 2 months,
> so I held off. When I asked for a status update, I was told
> it would be another month or two, but that it was definitely
> coming. To top it off, just yesterday I heard from a colleague
> that apparently mega_sas has been promised to us - under CDDL
> - for more than 12 months.
>
>
> Should I ignore the political stuff and proceed to PSARC
> + CTeam? I'm quite sick and tired of this mess.

I would suggest you move ahead.

I'm sure the point's being raised to you in private will be raised to
the ARC and the C-Team (out of the fear of precise duplication), and
be argued on their technical merit.

-- Rich
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