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

[Peter Memishian]

 > > As for what to display for "possible", I don't think that
 > > this is meaningful here.  I would rather see the default
 > > output just be "LINK", "PROPERTY", "VALUE" and "DEFAULT".
 > 
 > unfortunately we already follow the above convention (printing
 > POSSIBLE) for wifi links..  so unless we want to break the trend, we
 > are stuck with reporting possible. I personally also feel ther eis some
 > use in printing possible, as this gives a hint of input range.

Since none of the *-linkprop has shipped in a marketing release, it's
quite easy to make changes to it.  In other words, please don't feel like
we're "stuck with it" :-)

The "POSSIBLE" concept changed a few times during WiFi development, and
it's a bit underspecified at the moment.  In particular, right now there
can be values listed in "POSSIBLE" that may in fact be impossible (because
of other environment conditions -- e.g., if `powermode' is "off", the only
possible value for `radio' is "off", but we still also show "on" as a
possible value).  If we had a GUI, these would be the sort of things that
we'd gray out -- but old-school ASCII makes it hard to represent such a
concept.  If we want to sort this out, we'd probably need another field.

--
meem