On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:00:51AM -0400, William Baroniunas wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I would like to get some feedback on certain Sun copyright statements 
> which can be found in /contrib/sst directory.  These appear to be a 
> chunk of example code that someone upstream copied inadvertently.   We 
> are currently planning to patch the code out since it seems to be 
> Solaris-specific.  The preferred method would be to have the maintainers 
> remove the entire directory, and publish the updated packages.
> 
> Please let me know if anyone has any comments regarding this issue as it 
> may present problems for all of us down the road.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Baroniunas


It seems to be an old predecessor to the current Solaris SCSI Generic
(sgen) drivers.  Circa 1996/97, Solaris 6/7.

I scanned throught the 2.4.4 code and found no indication it is used
by any code there.  It is unlikely sst gets used more in later amanda
releases.

The only things I found were build instructions in the makefiles
and references to it in various docs and examples.

I suspect that early versions of chg-scsi "might" have had code to
use the /dev/{r}sst driver, but don't know that for a fact.  I base
that on the "example/chg-scsi-solaris.conf" file that references
/dev/rsst# as a device.


Anyone else know of any code that uses sst.  Maybe pre-Solaris 8?
Any Solaris sites even have a /dev/{r}sst device file?  Or a
/kernel/drv/sst.conf file?

jl
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