On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, John Plocher wrote: > The reason for derailment is that the case is not non-controversial; it > sets the stage for an almost-certain train wreck with two incompatible > drivers for the same hardware.
Considering where the LSI megasas driver is at, this is for certain. However, it would be nice if we had a seperate repository to handle more than one driver for a given device. JamesMc says he's going to draft up a paper for proposing that. > My objections would be satisfied by the two parties (Alan/James/David > and TBD at LSI) getting into contact with each other and working out an > architectural plan for how to proceed that does not drive us into the > corner of having two incompatible drivers in the system for the same > hardware. This has been going on for a while with LSI, but I spoke to my manager yesterday and he mentioned to me that it has only been since summer that this was being integrated...seemed some of the docs and such went back a bit farther to me, but that's besides the point. Essentially we have a situation where a vendor is willing to provide the driver and support along with management software, although the later will not be opened, and will most likely need to be downloaded from the vendors site, it will give the opportunity for all to have it. > Once we get over the problem of our left hand not talking with our right > hand, I'm sure that this team and the LSI folks will be able to figure > out the right thing to do. I would like to see a way that we could have David's driver in a respository so that the user could decide and use David's driver instead of the megasas in the future, but I don't know how difficult or how long it would take for our community to set something like that. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
