[driver-discuss] Re: [brussels-dev] dladm show-linkprop enhancements

[Peter Memishian]

 > On (06/22/07 18:58), Peter Memishian wrote:
 > > But link_speed isn't listed in ieee802.3(5) -- so does this mean we'll use
 > > "speed"?  More generally, I'm not convinced that reusing those names is
 > > the right choice (Do we really want to have a "link_up" property?  Or do
 >
 > right, so the decision (if you follow all the emails that were
 > subsequently exchanged) was to just follow the MII definitions and use
 > "adv_1000fdx_cap" etc. 

I'm not sure I follow, but I don't want to sweat the names too much at
this point.

 > > we really need to have the output of show-linkprop to be knee-deep in
 > > obscure link negotiation options like "lp_cap_1000hdx"?)
 > 
 > I personally agree, and these values are printed via kstat if needed, 
 > but as Raymond pointed out, users can now use one command (ndd) to find
 > out both the advertised and link-partner's capability. If we are going
 > to deprecate ndd, we should have a tool that provides both in one shot..

Sure, but that doesn't mean we have to slice up the problem the same way
with a billion little tunables with obscure names, does it?  In other
words, just because setting this stuff up has currently been modeled as a
sea of properties doesn't mean that it should stay that way, or that the
way the properties have been decomposed is ideal.

-- 
meem