Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Artem Kachitchkine wrote: >>> "political" considerations, and I think Sun's business concerns and >>> the concerns of the open source community may not be well aligned on >>> this issue. >> Right, so unless LSI speak to the community, there needs to be some >> indirect communication, so how about this strategy: >> >> We give Sun's "political" forces until 2nd week of Jan 2008 to come up >> with integration schedule for LSI's native driver, James McPherson >> acting as a middleman between Sun mgmt and the community. >> >> Said schedule should not extend beyond the community set deadline for >> the preliminary RTI, say 2 months after their response (2nd week of >> Mar 2008). >> >> Meanwhile, James & Co proceed with testing and code review for David's >> driver. If Sun+LSI do not file their RTI by deadline, James files a >> PSARC fast track and, 1 week later, an ON RTI. > > Sounds great. I'm not sure how you get the Sun "political forces" to > sign up to this, but good luck. > > The manager you need to talk to is Patrick Greene. He's the manager > that owns the relationship with LSI.
This is something I can get my teeth into. Artem - thanks for suggesting getting a deadline, I've been caught up in stuff and didn't think of that. Now I just need to figure out a way of being tactful..... :-) James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
