[brussels-dev] Displaying MII props in dladm

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (07/19/07 18:43), Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > >     An important point to note is that, since show-linkprop is 
>  > >     intended to only be the complement of set-linkprop, it will only
>  > >     display the r/w properties (see (c) below for finding the read-only
>  > >     properties).    
>  > >   
>  > 
>  > I'm not entirely sure I agree with that last point.  But I'm willing to 
>  > concede it, if there is some value perceived in displaying less than the 
>  > full set of properties here.
> 
> I'm also a bit nervous about this, since whether a given property can be
> modified may depend on the given driver.   However, if the goal is to
> ensure that status and statistics things don't end up dumped into the
> properties output, then I'm on-board.  

yes, that was the intent.. the point was being made mostly in the
context of the earlier discussion around the long list of MII properties
enumerated in ieee802.3(5), particularly the lp_* parameters, and I
guess, without that context, it comes across as dangerously general.

--Sowmini