"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 _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
