Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

From: Chris Adams (cmadams@hiwaay.net)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 01:47:34 EST


Once upon a time, Richard B. Johnson said:
>Many of the professional industrial uses of Unix were previously
>covered using Sun boards, boxes and SunOs. If you ever dial 10 before

Just a question: does the same driver run on SunOS 4.x and Solaris
(versions 2.0 through 7 and soon 8)? Or has Sun at some points said
"you must change the driver to match a new interface"?

For a commercial product, you shouldn't be using x.<odd>.x kernels. You
can keep using 2.2 (or even 2.0 - there are still a lot of 2.0 kernels
in production use) kernels for a while after 2.4 comes out, and then
upgrade your driver to use the new interface.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Information Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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