Re: Add tunable to control RMW for Flash Devices [PSARC/2010/296 FastTrace timeout 08/02/2010]

2010-08-16 Thread Garrett D'Amore
gt;> > >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:47:31PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >>> > >>>> Is there a reason that this we would ever, under normal circumstances, > >>>> want to use RMW on these devices? Is there a reason that this

Re: PSARC 2010/312 Link-editor guidance

2010-08-04 Thread Garrett D'Amore
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Re: PSARC/2010/304 Deliver Socket Configuration in Fragments

2010-07-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 09:56 -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > On 07/30/10 09:36, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 08:04 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Andrew Gabriel wrote: > >>> I also don't like the %2f encoding, not so much for this part

Re: PSARC/2010/304 Deliver Socket Configuration in Fragments

2010-07-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 08:04 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Andrew Gabriel wrote: > > I also don't like the %2f encoding, not so much for this particular > > case, but because it sets a bad precedent, and the standard unix text > > filtering commands don't have any support for that sort of escapin

Re: PSARC/2010/304 Deliver Socket Configuration in Fragments

2010-07-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 10:59 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > > > > name of the packages delivering the file. For example, system/kernel > > > would deliver etc/sock2path.d/system%2Fkernel. > > > > Its not r

Re: PSARC/2010/304 Deliver Socket Configuration in Fragments

2010-07-29 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 17:59 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > I am sponsoring this fast-track for Anders Persson. Timeout is set for > 08/06/2010. > > -Artem > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI > This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. > All r

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-07-29 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 08:52 -0400, Roger A. Faulkner wrote: > On 07/29/10 08:26, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > > "Roger A. Faulkner" wrote: > > > >> === > >> > >> #include > >> > >> ssize_t getdelim(char **res

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-07-28 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 These all look good! - Garrett On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 19:41 -0400, Roger A. Faulkner wrote: > I am sponsoring this fast-track case for myself. > Timeout is Wednesday, 08/04/2010 > > 1. Introduction > > This case adds 28 new functions to the C library, all in the > name of

Re: preauth removal from ipf [PSARC/2010/297 FastTrack timeout 08/03/2010]

2010-07-27 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. - Garrett ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org

Re: Add tunable to control RMW for Flash Devices [PSARC/2010/296 FastTrace timeout 08/02/2010]

2010-07-27 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I'm really confused here. Why run in an emulation mode at all? It seems like we can align and use 4K blocks directly, then we should *always* do so - at least for those devices which have a 4K physical block size. The "emulated" block size might be helpful for legacy OS, but we can do better, ca

Re: Remove binary symlinks from /etc [PSARC/2010/289 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2010]

2010-07-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I think removing things that users are likely to type is better. We want to discourage /etc from showing up in $PATH, so from my point of view this is supportive of that. I also think the opportunity to do this is *now*, while we've made a large number of other incompatible changes to the system

Re: Remove binary symlinks from /etc [PSARC/2010/289 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2010]

2010-07-23 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 20:01 +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > One possible exception to that concern is rmt. I worry that "/etc/rmt" > > may be hard coded into software that would be using remote tape > > facilities. While I doubt there

Re: Remove binary symlinks from /etc [PSARC/2010/289 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2010]

2010-07-23 Thread Garrett D'Amore
To my mind, its about time! The question I have is 3rd party software. Candidates that seem to be likely to be used by ISVs: autopush fstyp install mknod mount rmt (this one may have implications for interop with BSD systems) tar ua

Re: IBus Virtual Keyboard Input Method [PSARC/2010/288 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2010]

2010-07-23 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Looks good to me, +1. Question: are these events recorded as "synthetic" events to X, or are they indistinguishable to X and apps from real keypresses? -- Garrett On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 23:30 -0700, Fuyuki Hasegawa wrote: > I'm sponsoring this fast-track case for Noayuki. The time is set

Re: Generic Environmental FMA Events [PSARC/2010/286 Self Review]

2010-07-22 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Many other vendors provide chassis besides Sun/Oracle. I'm a bit disappointed that these are Sun Private. Is there some reason that they are not appropriate for Uncommitted status? - Garrett On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:34 -0600, Tim Haley wrote: > I am sponsoring this case on behalf of Ta

Re: Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver: mcxnex/mcxe [PSARC/2010/285 FastTrack timeout 07/28/2010]

2010-07-22 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. Which should be no real surprise since I was originally working on this project. :-) - Garrett On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:59 -0700, Phi Tran wrote: > I'm sponsoring this case for Kerry Shu with a requested patch release binding. > > Phi > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/

Re: VGA arbitration kernel driver [PSARC/2010/276 FastTrack timeout 07/28/2010]

2010-07-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 07:14 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > I confess that using read/write with textual commands seems awkward and > > inefficient -- I'd have thought a simple ioctl interface would have been > > better. It seems like m

Re: VGA arbitration kernel driver [PSARC/2010/276 FastTrack timeout 07/28/2010]

2010-07-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I confess that using read/write with textual commands seems awkward and inefficient -- I'd have thought a simple ioctl interface would have been better. It seems like mmap() has facilities that could handle this arbitration elegantly; or is the problem to provide an interface without updating any

Re: EOF and removal of installgrub(1m) floppy support [PSARC/2010/271 fasttrack timeout 07/23/2010]

2010-07-16 Thread Garrett D'Amore
That's what I thought, thanks. -- Garrett On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 17:47 +0200, Enrico Perla wrote: > so I don't think we should miss any scenario with USB media (without > limiting to the liveusb case). > We are keeping the PCFS support. > > Thanks, _

Re: EOF and removal of installgrub(1m) floppy support [PSARC/2010/271 fasttrack timeout 07/23/2010]

2010-07-16 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. I'm assuming that this won't affect USB flash media. - Garrett On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:53 -0700, Jerry Gilliam wrote: > I'm sponsoring this case on behalf of Jan Setje-Eilers > as a fast-track, with timeout set to 07/23/2010. > > > 1. Introduction > > This case requests the

Re: PSARC 2010/245 EOF of amr

2010-07-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:13 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:20 +0200, ольга крыжановская wrote: > >> The comment was in reply to your mail to Asa about closing this case. > >> Sorry for the out of order mail. >

Re: PSARC 2010/245 EOF of amr

2010-07-07 Thread Garrett D'Amore
nobody at Oracle really *wants* to fix the process. After all, it works perfectly well for Oracle's needs. -- Garrett > > Olga > > 2010/7/8 ольга крыжановская : > > What about your concerns for 3rd party vendors and the community? > > > > Olga > > &

Re: OpenSolaris ARC Agenda - July 14, 2010

2010-07-07 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:39 -0700, Asa Romberger wrote: > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+arc/ARCAgenda/ > > = OpenSolaris ARC Agenda > > = TELECONFERENCE NUMBERS: > > (866)682-4770 (Within US) > (408)774-4073 (International) > ACCESS CODE 3950943 > SECURITY CODE 6736 > Times

Re: Fibre Channel over IB Support [PSARC/2010/251 FastTrack timeout 07/08/2010]

2010-07-07 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 12:07 -0700, Ted H. Kim wrote: > Just to continue the discussion started at the 7/7 PSARC meeting ... > > Ted H. Kim wrote: > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> So this case is just plumbing details? > > If I understand what you mean by that, t

Re: OpenSolaris ARC Minutes - 07/07/2010

2010-07-07 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Yes > Michael Kearney no > Richard Matthewsno > Bill Sommerfeld (on sabbatical) > > Mark Martin no (external) > Garrett D'Amore no (external) > > STAFF - > Asa Romberger

PSARC 2010/245 EOF of amr

2010-07-07 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I'm a bit concerned that we may be premature in EOF'ing AMR. While *Sun* customers probably didn't use this driver on Sun hardware, the driver remains in the open source tree, and appears to have been sold by Dell fairly recently. If Oracle wants to elide this driver from Solaris 11 or Solaris N

Re: Next Generation BMC Driver [PSARC/2010/252 FastTrack timeout 07/07/2010]

2010-07-01 Thread Garrett D'Amore
ded" by > > 2010/252. Please work with this case owner (Phi Tran) to get the > > right thing done (I'm not sure who Jim is). > Name: Solaris ATCA IPMI Driver > Submitter: Kevin Song > Owner: Garrett D'Amore > Intern: Jim Walk

Re: OFUV Userland Interface [PSARC/2010/239 FastTrack timeout 07/02/2010]

2010-07-01 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 09:58 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 30/06/2010 23:47, Ted H. Kim wrote: > > I think this is where things are ending up. > > > > umad to use protection 666 and PRIV_SYS_NET_CONFIG > > ucma reserved ports uses PRIV_NET_PRIVADDR > > uverbs privileged Q_Keys uses PRIV_NET_PRI

Re: Next Generation BMC Driver [PSARC/2010/252 FastTrack timeout 07/07/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:11 -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:46 -0700, Barry Harding wrote: > >> > >> Ipmitool can be changed over to use OpenIPMI and I believe in fact that

Re: Next Generation BMC Driver [PSARC/2010/252 FastTrack timeout 07/07/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
t would be the far superior approach. - Garrett > > Barry > > Phi Tran wrote: > > On 06/30/10 13:54, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:40 -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > >>> On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Garrett D'Amore

Re: Fibre Channel over IB Support [PSARC/2010/251 FastTrack timeout 07/08/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:05 -0700, Ted H. Kim wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > So this case is just plumbing details? > > If that is what you want to call IBTF and hermon. > > > I'm a bit concerned that the case is incomplete without the FCoIB ULP > >

Re: Fibre Channel over IB Support [PSARC/2010/251 FastTrack timeout 07/08/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
ether with the ULP driver? - Garrett On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:48 -0700, Ted H. Kim wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > So, this FCoIB driver, will it be a separate driver, that lives above > > IBTF? > > yes, there will be a separate FCoIB ULP driver client over I

Re: Next Generation BMC Driver [PSARC/2010/252 FastTrack timeout 07/07/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:40 -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > > Generally, I think this project is doing the right things. But a few > > issues: > > > > a) BMC API is listed as Consolidation Private.

Re: Next Generation BMC Driver [PSARC/2010/252 FastTrack timeout 07/07/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Generally, I think this project is doing the right things. But a few issues: a) BMC API is listed as Consolidation Private. Are there consumers outside of ON? If not, then you could probably just nuke the BMC API. If there *are*, then you are automatically no longer Consolidation Private, but a

Re: Fibre Channel over IB Support [PSARC/2010/251 FastTrack timeout 07/08/2010]

2010-06-30 Thread Garrett D'Amore
So, this FCoIB driver, will it be a separate driver, that lives above IBTF? Can it in theory support any IB HCA, or is hermon the only way to provide this functionality (is it custom firmware on the HCA?) Also, I'd like to understand the interaction between all of the drivers in the FCoE stack...

Re: Performance Improvements for libmtmalloc [PSARC/2010/212 FastTrack, timeout 06/28/2010]

2010-06-28 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 -- Garrett On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 21:45 +0100, Pete Dennis wrote: > The timer is about to complete on this but no +1's received > (I'm not going to count the +1 for the previous proposal > as it has changed with respect to the usage of the environment > variables). > > pete > > __

Re: System Configuration -- nodename and defaultdomain [PSARC/2010/223 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-18 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 18:38 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > Presumably uname -S and "hostname" will be modified to to update the SMF > > property as well as read it (likewise for "domainname&qu

Re: System Configuration -- nodename and defaultdomain [PSARC/2010/223 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-18 Thread Garrett D'Amore
gt; service. But isn't there already an SMF service for nis/client? It seems like that is where this belongs? (Or perhaps nis/server? Both?) I'd be interested to hear what the networking folks think. - Garrett > > Thanks, > > John > > On 06/18/10 03:06

Re: System Configuration -- nodename and defaultdomain [PSARC/2010/223 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-18 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Presumably uname -S and "hostname" will be modified to to update the SMF property as well as read it (likewise for "domainname"?) Also, what about sys-unconfig(1M)? (Or has that already been obsoleted elsewhere?) I wonder if system/identity:domain would better be named to reflect how this is use

Re: PSARC 2009/430 Default system CA (X.509) Certificates [closed approved 06/17/2010]

2010-06-17 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:04 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 17/06/2010 19:29, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > I don't think it is necessarily true that these decisions or review, or > > even a review of the process itself, have to be in the "open", but I do &g

Re: PSARC 2009/430 Default system CA (X.509) Certificates [closed approved 06/17/2010]

2010-06-17 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:12 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 17/06/2010 16:21, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > While ARC may or may not be the best place to review changes to the > > certificate list (it probably isn't), I think we should like to know how > > rev

Re: PSARC 2009/430 Default system CA (X.509) Certificates [closed approved 06/17/2010]

2010-06-17 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 10:54 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: My only concern is this paragraph: > > The project team reserves the right to revise the exact list of > certificates and/or choose an entirely different source of certifcates > at anytime without requiring further ARC review. > While A

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack, timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
PSARC mail from my mobile. - Garrett On 06/10/10 11:37, ольга крыжановская wrote: How long did you type on the text below? :) Something is wrong, either list or mail app. Olga 2010/6/10 Garrett D'Amore: KzEKClBldGVyIERlbm5pcyA8cGV0ZXIuZGVubmlzQG9yYWNsZS5jb20+IHdyb3RlOg

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack, timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
KzEKClBldGVyIERlbm5pcyA8cGV0ZXIuZGVubmlzQG9yYWNsZS5jb20+IHdyb3RlOgoKPkJlbG93 IGlzIGFuIGFtZW5kZWQgcHJvcG9zYWwuIFRpbWVyIGlzIG5vdCByZXNldCBhcyBpdCBlc3NlbnRp YWxseQo+Y2xhcmlmaWVzIHRoZSBkaXNjdXNzaW9uIHNvIGZhci4KPgo+UmVxdWlyZWQgcmVsZWFz ZSBiaW5kaW5nOgo+ICAgICBQYXRjaCBiaW5kaW5nIGZvciB0aGUgYW5ub3VuY2VtZW50

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:03 -0700, Scott Rotondo wrote: > Several people have pointed out that the harm from removing these > commands isn't that great because > > (a) recent scripts tend not to use this mechanism to figure out the type > of platform, and > > (b) older scripts will still work (

Re: Removal of pwgen from SFW [PSARC/2010/206 FastTrack timeout 06/11/2010]

2010-06-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
:57, Suhasini Peddada wrote: > >> Hi Garrett and Darren, > >> > >> On 06/08/10 09:35 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:04 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > >>>> On 08/06/2010 07:11, Suhasini Peddada wrote: > >>>>&g

Re: Removal of pwgen from SFW [PSARC/2010/206 FastTrack timeout 06/11/2010]

2010-06-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:04 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 08/06/2010 07:11, Suhasini Peddada wrote: > > Hi Darren, > > > > On 06/07/10 06:06 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > > >> I agree with Bart I don't approve of the removal of this command. > >> Cleaning up SFW is fine but don't throw out us

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:59 +0200, Steve McKinty wrote: > Why are these "not relevant"? In my experience they are mostly > used in scripts and Makefiles, to ensure that the right code path > is taken. Won't removing them break older configure-style scripts, > i.e. ones that test things like "if [ !

Re: Removal of pwgen from SFW [PSARC/2010/206 FastTrack timeout 06/11/2010]

2010-06-04 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:51 -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > On 06/04/10 11:36, Suhasini Peddada wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am submitting the fasttrak to obsolete pwgen from SFW Consolidation for > > Lukas Rovensky and seeking a patch binding. Time out is Jun 11th, 2010. > > > > > > This makes no sens

Re: interfaces for basic install network configuration [PSARC/2010/164, FastTrack timeout 05/19/2010]

2010-06-02 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:20 -0400, Mark Haywood wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:01 -0400, Mark Haywood wrote: > > > >> On 06/ 2/10 01:43 PM, James Carlson wrote: > >> > >>> James Carlson wrote: > >>&g

EOF of Locale Administrator [PSARC/2010/200 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2010]

2010-06-02 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. -- Garrett ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org

Re: interfaces for basic install network configuration [PSARC/2010/164, FastTrack timeout 05/19/2010]

2010-06-02 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:01 -0400, Mark Haywood wrote: > On 06/ 2/10 01:43 PM, James Carlson wrote: > > James Carlson wrote: > > > >> That's the part that still confuses me. I'd expected that, just as > >> installation was "based on" NWAM in OpenSolaris, this would be the > >> pattern for the

Re: PCITool Output Improvement [PSARC/2010/201 FastTrack timeout 06/09/2010]

2010-06-02 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. I'd love an option to select only the output for a given driver or a given cpu, in addition to the sort facility. I guess grep, cut, awk, and friends can be used to extract that though. :-) - Garrett On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:54 -0700, Govinda Tatti wrote: > I'm sponsoring the follow

PSARC 2009/585 EOF of graph and spline

2010-06-01 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Since no one else saw fit to comment constructively, or argue against the removal of (or derail this case *again*) these utilities following the fast track rules, this case has been marked closed approved. Thank you. (And thank you also to my anonymous remote hands for making the change to the IA

Re: DTrace Kerberos Protocol Provider [PSARC/2010/194 FastTrack timeout 06/02/2010]

2010-05-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
10 12:52 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:47:48PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: On 5/26/2010 12:25 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:41:51AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Also, your stability levels need to be modernized

Re: DTrace Kerberos Protocol Provider [PSARC/2010/194 FastTrack timeout 06/02/2010]

2010-05-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 5/26/2010 12:25 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:41:51AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Also, your stability levels need to be modernized. We don't use Evolving and Unstable anymore.. Perhaps you mean Uncommitted and Volatile? DTrace sticks

Re: DTrace Kerberos Protocol Provider [PSARC/2010/194 FastTrack timeout 06/02/2010]

2010-05-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
This case seems like a good thing, but I'm not an expert enough on Kerberos to know if it meets all the needs that folks are going to want. I'd like to hear, if possible, from other folks more intimate with Kerberos before giving this a +1. Also, your stability levels need to be modernized.

Re: Automated Boot Archive Recovery [PSARC/2010/187 fast-track 05/27/2010]

2010-05-25 Thread Garrett D'Amore
tween the mailing list software and the base 64 encoding. (As to why it chose to encode it in base 64... that is a mystery.) - Garrett On 5/25/2010 5:17 PM, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: On 05/25/10 16:58, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Which decodes too: > > So +1 on the case, since

Re: Automated Boot Archive Recovery [PSARC/2010/187 fast-track 05/27/2010]

2010-05-25 Thread Garrett D'Amore
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Re: Timer reset: PSARC/2009/585: EOF of graph and spline: fast-track timeout 05/28/2010

2010-05-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 5/21/2010 9:05 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: At Garrett's request I've reset the status of the case to "waiting fast-track 05/28/2010". Thanks. The rationale here is that meaty substance has already been discussed/reviewed before. What's different is that we won't be delivering GNU pl

Re: PSARC 2009/585 EOF of graph and spline

2010-05-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
#x27;ll be going through request-sponsor from here on out, I guess. :-) I have to run, and won't have time to update the IAM file on this case before I lose access to do so today -- perhaps someone else who's an ARC member could do so for me? Thanks. - Garrett On 05/17/10 10:49, G

Re: Kernel Keyboard Configuration in SMF [PSARC/2010/183 FastTrack timeout 05/27/2010]

2010-05-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Does it make sense to use some special value (zero or -1) to mean uninitialized? That way could at least preserve the type. -- Garrett Felix Feng wrote: >> I think this is a good change. But I'd like to see more sample values >> for the valid values of these properties -- the type of astr

Re: PKCS#11 URI parser for libcryptoutil [PSARC/2010/188 FastTrack timeout 05/28/2010]

2010-05-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 -- Garrett Darren J Moffat wrote: > >Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI >This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All >rights reserved. >1. Introduction >1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >PKCS#11 URI parser for libcryptoutil >

Re: Username length [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 5/27/2010]

2010-05-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/20/10 02:06 PM, I. Szczesniak wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Don Cragun wrote: The reason that LOGNAME_MAX was stuck at 8 in for so long is that the System V ABIs and the SCDs require that value. Solaris 10 has been breaking ABI requirements around the edges for a few years

Re: Username length [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 5/27/2010]

2010-05-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I concur fully with Nico on this one. Further, customers requiring strict compliance can run an S10 zone. I think we're no longer in 1980's style SVID anymore -- already there have been other issues where we have deviated -- from certain ZFS semantics to packaging, so that we're no longer tra

Re: Username legnth [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 2/27/2010]

2010-05-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1, thanks for the great background research on this. (Even with the typo in the title.) - Garrett On 05/20/10 09:01 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Re: Kernel Keyboard Configuration in SMF [PSARC/2010/183 FastTrack timeout 05/27/2010]

2010-05-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I think this is a good change. But I'd like to see more sample values for the valid values of these properties -- the type of astring is a bit .. hmm... non-specific. (And furthermore, perhaps some of the values should actually take more specifically typed data, e.g. numbers or booleans? Th

Re: Multiple IPoIB instances per PKEY [PSARC/2010/182 FastTrack timeout 05/26/2010]

2010-05-19 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. - Garrett On 05/19/10 04:38 PM, Ted Kim wrote: Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Multiple IPoIB instances per

Re: fontconfig 2.8.0 [PSARC/2010/162 FastTrack timeout 05/17/2010]

2010-05-17 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 -- Garrett On 05/17/10 13:53, Alan Coopersmith wrote: This case is set to timeout today, but has received no +1 - is any ARC member available to review it or do I need to extend the timer? -alan- Alan Coopersmith wrote: I am sponsoring this fast-track for myself, and have se

Re: PSARC 2009/585 EOF of graph and spline

2010-05-17 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/17/10 10:36, Bart Smaalders wrote: On 05/14/10 22:41, Garrett D'Amore wrote: While this case was approved, with the idea that these utilities would be replaced by integrating the GNU plotutils suite, I'd like to change direction somewhat. Specifically, it seems that /co

PSARC 2009/585 EOF of graph and spline

2010-05-14 Thread Garrett D'Amore
While this case was approved, with the idea that these utilities would be replaced by integrating the GNU plotutils suite, I'd like to change direction somewhat. Specifically, it seems that /contrib is a superior delivery mechanism for these tools. I don't believe that there is a compelling n

Re: Renaming interrupt affinity interfaces [PSARC/2010/172 FastTrack timeout 05/20/10]

2010-05-13 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. I always felt the interfaces were not really appropriate for generic drivers to use. - Garrett On 05/13/10 03:19 PM, Govinda Tatti wrote: I'm sponsoring the following fasttrack for Evan Yan. The timer is set to expire on 05/20/2010. - Govinda Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase

Re: Unified sharing system call [PSARC/2010/154 FastTrack timeout 05/11/2010]

2010-05-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/12/10 04:58 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: The sharefs system call would be changed to accept: a protocol discriminator (NFS or SMB), an operation (publish or unpublish) and an opaque pointer to share data. The opaque data passes transparently thr

Re: Xorg configuration file for VESA driver selection [PSARC/2010/161 FastTrack timeout 05/14/2010]

2010-05-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
The case seems reasonable enough (far less contentious than I first had guessed from the title alone). +1. - Garrett On 05/ 7/10 02:20 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I am sponsoring this case for the X team. The timer is set for one week from today, May 14, 2010. The case requests a patc

Re: 2008/760 Boot configuration Service

2010-05-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
to be business justification), so you could have approval by then. - Garrett -jan On 05/10/10 13:37, Garrett D'Amore wrote: In my opinion, changing the binding of 2008/760 is not entirely unreasonable, but 2008/760 makes references to fast reboot, and so you're not really

Re: 2008/760 Boot configuration Service

2010-05-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
rence to 2008/760. Indeed, it seems that what you want to do for *this* case is significant enough that it ought to be described in a case of its own anyway. - Garrett On 05/ 6/10 03:24 PM, Gangadhar Mylapuram wrote: Garrett D'Amore wrote: On 05/ 5/10 07:12 AM, Gangadhar Mylap

Re: PSARC 2010/151 new socket options for TCP timers

2010-05-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 6/10 08:32 AM, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:06:31PM +0800, Kacheong Poon wrote: Suppose the process is able to exit but the socket lingers. In that case will the lingering socket defeat resource controls? I guess your concern is that somehow the peer go

Re: SMF networking type extensions [PSARC/2010/157 FastTrack timeout 05/12/2010]

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Seems straight forward enough. +1 - Garrett On 05/ 5/10 01:31 PM, Liane Praza wrote: Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:

Re: PSARC 2010/151 new socket options for TCP timers

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 5/10 01:02 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:58:33PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: On 05/ 5/10 12:48 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: What happens when a socket in FIN_WAIT2 is close()d, or a process exits and a socket is closed and ends up in FIN_WAIT2

Re: PSARC 2010/151 new socket options for TCP timers

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 5/10 12:48 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: What happens when a socket in FIN_WAIT2 is close()d, or a process exits and a socket is closed and ends up in FIN_WAIT2? If the FIN_WAIT2 timer is set to 2^31, what happens? Suppose the process is able to exit but the socket lingers. In that case w

Re: PSARC 2010/151 new socket options for TCP timers

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 5/10 11:32 AM, Kacheong Poon wrote: On 05/ 6/10 02:05 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Thanks for the clarification. The concern I have is that while an app can achieve the same resource exhaustion by opening multiple files, we *do* have ways to limit the total number of open files th

Re: PSARC 2010/151 new socket options for TCP timers

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
, Kacheong Poon wrote: On 05/ 6/10 12:42 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: 1) Can an ill-behaved application cause bad things to happen to the TCP stack by setting RTO or abort timers too high? I'm specifically thinking that by setting these timers to a large value, that it might be possible to

PSARC 2010/151 new socket options for TCP timers

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I didn't see the mail for this, but I've reviewed the case history on sac.sfbay. It seems reasonable, but I do have some questions: 1) Can an ill-behaved application cause bad things to happen to the TCP stack by setting RTO or abort timers too high? I'm specifically thinking that by setting

Re: PSARC 2010/152 SMF Site Profile Directory

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 5/10 09:22 AM, Liane Praza wrote: On 05/05/10 08:53, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Obsolete Committed seems unfortunate -- is there a reason this needs to be Committed? It seems like this could be decommitted somewhat for the Solaris Next release? Is this file used on Solaris 10? (I

Re: PSARC 2010/152 SMF Site Profile Directory

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 5/10 08:48 AM, Liane Praza wrote: On 05/05/10 06:59, Garrett D'Amore wrote: I tend to agree that from an architectural perspective, the site.xml might better be handled as Obsolete -- it seems that the new mechanism is superior. The new mechanism is identical, so the site.xml loc

Re: 2008/760 Boot configuration Service

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 05/ 5/10 07:12 AM, Gangadhar Mylapuram wrote: Hi, I request to change the PSARC 2008/760 binding from micro to patch. Fast reboot related properties will not be backported. boot-config service can also be used by consumers other than fast-reboot project. Thanks, Gangadhar Can you please e

Re: PSARC 2010/152 SMF Site Profile Directory

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I tend to agree that from an architectural perspective, the site.xml might better be handled as Obsolete -- it seems that the new mechanism is superior. I also agree that Patch (as specified in the document) is fine for this case. - Garrett On 05/ 4/10 12:14 PM, John Fischer wrote: Ton

Re: Remove libnsl dependency on libscf [PSARC/2010/153 Self Review]

2010-05-05 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 on the case, and on it being self-review. - Garrett On 05/ 4/10 02:56 PM, Liane Praza wrote: Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Workin

Re: Removing awstats from SFW [PSARC/2010/148 FastTrack timeout 05/06/2010]

2010-04-29 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 -- Garrett John Fischer wrote: > >Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI >This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All >rights reserved. >1. Introduction >1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >Removing awstats from SFW >1.2. Name

Re: PSARC/2010/149 - Removing bwm-ng from SFW

2010-04-29 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1 on the case, and +1 on Darren's request. -- Garrett Darren J Moffat wrote: >On 29/04/2010 18:52, John Fischer wrote: >> All, >> >> I am sponsoring this case for Stefan Teleman of the SFW group. >> The case directory contains this proposal and the appendix >> material. I have set the timer

Re: SNAP BE Management [PSARC/2010/059] NEED VOTE

2010-04-28 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 04/28/10 09:50 AM, Gary Winiger wrote: On 04/27/10 23:44, Jim Walker wrote: Here is the opinion for PSARC/2010/059 SNAP BE Management. http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/059/opinion_draft.txt I request a commitment email vote. Approve. Gary.. I approve. (I thought I ha

Re: Adobe - flash player plugin upgrade in Solaris [PSARC/2010/131 FastTrack timeout 04/22/2010]

2010-04-28 Thread Garrett D'Amore
12:26 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: On OpenSolaris/Solaris.Next, we have a new audio API (OSS), which is simpler, more performant, and quite possibly more reliable. Will the new flash player make use of the OSS API, or will it still use the legacy Sun audio interfaces? - Garrett On 04/1

Re: Kerberos Diagnostic Enhancements (umbrella case) [PSARC/2010/135 FastTrack timeout 04/27/2010]

2010-04-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 04/20/10 08:27 AM, Mark Phalan wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 08:14 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: This all looks pretty good. I'd like to see an actual list of the mdb macros and DTrace probes that have been proposed. Expect more cases exposing the Dtrace probes (soo

Re: Kerberos Diagnostic Enhancements (umbrella case) [PSARC/2010/135 FastTrack timeout 04/27/2010]

2010-04-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
This all looks pretty good. I'd like to see an actual list of the mdb macros and DTrace probes that have been proposed. Furthermore, I'd like some independent analysis from the project team (if possible) to confirm that the new debugging enhancements can't result in leakage of sensitive data

Re: Adobe - flash player plugin upgrade in Solaris [PSARC/2010/131 FastTrack timeout 04/22/2010]

2010-04-15 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On OpenSolaris/Solaris.Next, we have a new audio API (OSS), which is simpler, more performant, and quite possibly more reliable. Will the new flash player make use of the OSS API, or will it still use the legacy Sun audio interfaces? - Garrett On 04/15/10 12:05 PM, John Fischer wrote: T

Re: SNAP BE Management [PSARC/2010/059 opinion for review by 04/21/2010]

2010-04-14 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 04/14/10 09:33 AM, Joel Buckley wrote: Jim, I believe this is incorrectly included in Live Update interfaces: luxadmObsolete [1] Cheers, Joel. Nice catch Joel -- that *clearly* doesn't belong here. Modulo fixing that problem, I'm going to say for the record th

Re: dumpadm -d none [PSARC/2010/122 FastTrack timeout 04/15/2010]

2010-04-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
For my nickel's worth, I think that there is little or no cause to enable the administrator to skip the dump -- Solaris, and OpenSolaris, *are* enterprise grade operating systems. While some people may be using it on desktops and such, the real motivation for both of these is for use in Enterp

Re: SMB/CIFS Statistics [PSARC/2010/120 FastTrack timeout 04/14/2010]

2010-04-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 04/12/10 02:15 PM, Alan Wright wrote: Thanks for the +1. My main concern is that smbstat is a consumer and using a consumer as a vehicle for documenting a consumed interface doesn't seem appropriate - both as a mechanism and for traceability. I'd really prefer that this case remain a simple

Re: SMB/CIFS Statistics [PSARC/2010/120 FastTrack timeout 04/14/2010]

2010-04-12 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 04/ 9/10 05:47 PM, Jordan Brown wrote: Alan Wright wrote: I honestly can't see what value a list would add to this case. I agree. Note also that some have held that once you have put a Project Private interface into an ARC case, you must run an ARC case to make any changes to it. That s

Re: SMB/CIFS Statistics [PSARC/2010/120 FastTrack timeout 04/14/2010]

2010-04-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I think you should file changes, but can do so with a self-review case or even just an email update to the original case. So not free, but really cheap. -- Garrett Jordan Brown wrote: >Alan Wright wrote: >> I honestly can't see what value a list would add to this case. > >I agree. Note al

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