[brussels-dev] Re: Removing of bge's duplicate kstat entries

[Peter Memishian]

 > > Currently we have two duplicate kstat blocks in bge. One is "mii", 
 > > which is duplicate with "mac" MII/GMII kstat of Nemo. Another is 
 > > "parameters", which is kstat copy of  ndd.
 > >
 > > Now we are clearing duplicate entries of bge and hope to remove those 
 > > duplicate parts. If your admin scripts use things like "kstat 
 > > bge:0:mii" or "kstat bge:0:parameters", you might run into 
 > > compatibility problems after the clearing. The right way to retrive 
 > > above infor should be something like "kstat bge:0:mac" and "ndd 
 > > /dev/bge0 xxx" instead.
 > >
 > > I wonder if there is any issues with the plan to removing those 
 > > duplicate entries. Please advice.

Sounds fine to me, but could you elaborate on whether the remaining kstats
will names and semantics that are consistent those exported from other
drivers?

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meem