Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The only vendor that the overwhelming majority of users, developers, >> and customers care about is the definition of the binary ABI as >> published by Sun. >> > > This was true in the pre-OpenSolaris time. > > Since we have OpenSolaris, there was the hope that interfaces are no > longer defined by Sun as dictator but by the community. It seems that > this is not true. > > Jörg > The charter (or whatever) states that compatibility is a core attribute of OpenSolaris.
Yes, new interfaces or new extensions to interfaces should be defined by the community, but the existing interfaces are dictated by the core OpenSolaris attribute of compatibility. I don't have the slightest idea why you don't seem to want to adhere to this core attribute of Solaris. As a matter of fact, you seem to be the only one who doesn't value it, but rather seem to prefer your personal preferences. - jek3 Just to nit, the core ABI (I have it right here) was published by AT&T (copyright 1990). We didn't "own" it until we bought out the license. _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
