Stephen Hahn wrote:
I am uncertain that a sponsor will successfully manage to integrate this fix. The decision to drop US-I support was made for a complex of reasons, some business, some legal, and has had various follow-on effects (like elimination from test farms, among others). One outcome, perhaps undesirable, you may be constructing the first long-lived patchset, which is itself an interesting discussion.
This brings up an interesting point, which is that we may have a lot of community supported, but non-Sun-supported, features some day, starting from this one (and with resurrecting the le driver which is related to this revival for supporting non-1E Ultras).
Keeping such code out of the consolidation doesn't seem fair; Linux has the notion of unsupported code too -- it's pretty much "as long as it compiles it's up to the users to fix it when it breaks" but otherwise no guarantees are made.
One could envision an environment variable you set in your nightly.env file to enable compiling in such code. Sun could compile Solaris without this switch set, to prevent having "unsupported" code build into their distribution, while other distros could build with it enabled?
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