Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Artem Kachitchkine wrote: >> Why is this an ARC issue?
> I think that > *is* an issue for PSARC at least. This issue is on the boundry between the "systems" architecture of OpenSolaris and the design/implementation of the ON subsystem. IFF device drivers were an implementation detail of the OpenSolaris ON consolidation alone, then the ARCs would not really care about it, since they could safely delegate the whole shebang to the people managing ON. If ON wished to do a global refactoring or flag day or whatever, they /could/ also go thru and update every single driver to match, and all such changes would be invisible to everyone outside of ON. Of course, the above assumption is false. Drivers are written outside of the ON consolidation; there is even early pie-in-the-sky talk about refactoring the existing ON to potentially separate out things like drivers into their own consolidation(s). This makes the driver interface to ON part of the systems integration conversation - it no longer is simply an implementation detail of ON. -John
