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Bug#686453: ITP: spl-dkms -- The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) for the Linux kernel



On 01/09/12 22:56, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> replying in private
> 
> On 1 September 2012 19:41, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@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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