[brussels-dev] dladm(1M) man page

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (08/22/07 14:12), Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
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> I can be missing the issue completely, apologies if I do. IMHO making 
> stability level part of the naming scheme is generally risky. 
> Promotions/demotions happen and if they lead to lots of renaming, it would 
> lead to problems on both the consumer and provider side: disrupt 

That's a very good point. 

If we had to change the name to promote something from public to private,
in addition to all the user-surprises this would create,
the upgrade procedure would have to do the task of purging the old name
from the dladm repository and inserting the new one.

--Sowmini