[brussels-dev] 6545020 kernel access to repository data

[Artem Kachitchkine]

What's the current plan for this RFE? There isn't an active project that 
depends on it, which probably allows it to be on backburner. But as 
usual, it might be a bit of a chicken/egg situation.

Project Brussels is migrating network drivers from driver.conf and ndd 
tunables to dladm-based link properties. The properties are applied when 
a network link is plumbed, and can also be changed on the fly via 
dladm(1M). It is basically what all Solaris driver configuration should 
be like, but network drivers need it the most and cannot wait for 
next-gen driver.conf to come along.

Although link properties are currently stored in a file, Clearview is 
planning to move them to SMF. Our current prototype uses an SMF service 
whose only job is to receive door upcalls from the kernel and push the 
requested properties into the kernel - it has some boot-related issues, 
scales poorly and is, by and large, an architectural wart. It would be 
nice if we could use standard SMF interfaces from the kernel, at least 
in the foreseeable future.

-Artem