> That is one itch I would scratch, especially if I felt that there was > a chance that it would turn into a standard patch to Solaris. > Otherwise, you're right - it would be an attractive nuisance. >
The problem with releasing patchadd/pdo is precisely that changing the Nevada code doesn't get you all that close to something that will be useful to you or any other Solaris 10 customer. Back-porting to Solaris 10 is something that has to be done by Sun staff, it tends to be fairly time-consuming, and we just plain don't have the bandwidth in the engineering and sustaining teams to commit to taking contributions and back-porting them. Since we can't make that commitment, I can't classify releasing that code as anything other than "attractive nuisance". (FWIW, pdo.c is a swamp. I'm doing you a favor. Really.) Dave
