On 01/09/12 22:56, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > replying in private > > On 1 September 2012 19:41, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> > wrote: >> >> This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris >> development closely and don't want the overhead of maintaining a large >> patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives. >> . > > How does one "track upstream Solaris development"? Is it not closed > source since Solaris 11 release? Or is this in reference to other > solaris kernels used by open source forks after the end of the > OpenSolaris project? > > Regards, > > Dmitrijs. >
You are right. I C&P the description from the source code [1]. I will rephrase the package description as: This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don't want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives. Regards! -------- [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl
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