[brussels-dev] [sysadmin-discuss] [networking-discuss] [driver-discuss] pausel bits setting within Solaris

[Raymond LI - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China]

Rainer Heilke wrote:
> Sorry, I haven't really been part of this discussion. Here are my 
> votes/opinions.
>
> Raymond LI - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China wrote:
>
>> Guys, would we come up with some conclusion on this?
>>
>> 1. What UI to provide, meaningful strings or numerical on/off?
>>  
>>
> I vote for meaningful strings.
>
>> I think all of us agree to have a more straightfoward UI for customer 
>> to config.
>> And we have below two proposed UI so far.
>> (1) flowcontrol = {send, accept, disable, both}
>> (2) accept_pause = {0, 1}, send_pause = {0, 1}
>> Seems (1) is more concise.
>>  
>>
> Flow control seems clearer.
OK, let's do that with flowcontrol and string values.
>
>> 2. Will we still keep our ieee802.3(5) manpage definations as 
>> underlying implementation?
>> I think before IEEE has new idea on them, we just keep them as what 
>> they are today.
>>  
>>
> Not sure on this one.
>
>> But we don't provide interfaces to directly tune them anymore. User 
>> still could check the
>> values as read-only for debug/diag purpose.
>>  
>>
> If we can't tune them, we should at least have a way of determining them.
Yes, I think this will determine when flowcontrol is set to some value. 
And this will avoid that
different drivers have different parsing.