Hi, Glenn, Thanks for your review. Comments inline.
Glenn Skinner wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:31:44 +0800 > From: Frank Che <Frank.Che at sun.com> > Subject: PSARC 2008/043 Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris > > ... > In phase 1, the device file "/dev/dsp" provided by OSS drivers > is a project private interface and only root user is able to > access it. No new interface will be published in this phase. > Although HD audio driver is replaced by OSS hdaudio driver, > other SADA drivers will not be replaced in phase 1. Drivers of > the two different frameworks can work together. SADA framework > will not be removed, either. Detailed information of SADA can > be found in man pages: audio(7I), mixer(7I) and > audio_support(7I). > >Do you intend to promote /dev/dsp to higher visibility in a future >phase of the project? If not, you should consider removing it and >have references to it refer instead to the corresponding node in >/devices (which already has private visibility). > > Yes. Visibility and stability of /dev/dsp will be promoted in the following phases. >When you say that only the root user can access /dev/dsp, do you mean >to say that the underlying device file is owned by root and has >permission 600? Or does the device's driver make explicit permission >checks? > > It is owned by root and has permission 600. Best regards Freeman >[I've seen no resolution to the question of whether >opensound-discuss at opensolaris.org should be used in addition to the >psarc-ext alias, so I haven't changed addressing information in this >response.] > > > -- Glenn > > >
