[brussels-dev] Re: [networking-discuss] Brussels high-level design document

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (06/26/07 01:06), Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > situation, it is the driver's responsibility to emit a log message
>  > saying when the change will be effective (e.g., the next stop/start
>  > pair). The dladm/gldv3 framework itself would not interfere with the
>  > behavior.
> 
> While I can understand that from an implementation standpoint, from a
> usability standpoint I don't think a log message goes far enough.  The
> person running the dladm set-linkprop subcommand needs the feedback.

What we could do is to have a distinct error code to
track this case (EINTR?) that could be caught by dladm to emit 
the information to the user- would that suffice?

--Sowmini