Omedetou Gozaimasu Murayama-San! This morning, Masa Murayama's sfe driver was given birth into OpenSolaris. I would certainly like to thanks him from the community for providing so many NIC device drivers in the past. Currently his drivers number about 2 dozen (although several are dulicates of current OpenSolaris drivers, or obsoleted). The fact is that over the years many people have been able to use Solaris due partially to the fact that Masa has created them.
I was able to putback Masa Murayama's sfe driver to OpenSolaris today, and barring any complications will be in Build 81. This was exciting for me as it was my first putback, and that is no easy task in itself (akin to child birth, but with triplettes weighing 12 lbs. each;-). Getting through testing was challenging, and this was not the first of Masa's drivers that we've tried to get through, it is however the first to be putback. The good thing is that Masa's drivers use a similar architecture, and the work done on the sfe will be reused in his other drivers and hopefully allow several more to complete testing. This is the 3rd community contributed NIC driver that has been putback into OpenSolaris, although some vendors have contributed open source drivers already. This is the 3rd of community developed and contributed back to OpenSolaris. The first 2 were Garrett D'Amore's afe/mxfe drivers a few months ago. Garrett has been a great help to mentor through the process of the putback, and I'm glad to say that similar to Garrett's code, the sfe sources are 100% cstyle and lint clean. There are no waivers for either of those on Masa's code. This is not the case with all drivers in OpenSolaris, and I think it speaks well of code that both Garrett and Masa have created for all of us to have and use. This is what open source software is all about. It is about people writing code that they share, not because they have a job to do so, but because their heart tells them to. I like to explain open source software as starting from the grass roots and growing up through your heart. It is not something that is bought, it is not something that is awarded, it just seems to be within some folks, and I'm grateful for that. Thanks you both so much! With that said, on to the second child when I get back from break...the VIA RHINE 10/100 Fast Ethernet...which hopefully will be Masa's second child in OpenSolaris.;-) -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
