[brussels-dev] NDD compatibility shim in gldv3

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (02/08/08 18:00), Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > # ndd -get /dev/bge1 \?
>  > Feb  8 16:30:51 whitestar2-9.East.Sun.COM mac: WARNING: The ndd
>  > commands are obsolete and may be removed in a future release of
>  > Solaris. Use dladm(1M) to manage driver tunables
>  >  :
> 
> It would make more sense to me if the ndd command itself printed that
> on stderr (for datalinks, not for all devices).  As it is, someone
> basically ends up spamming syslog and not even knowing it.

It's hard for the ndd command to do this, until every driver is
converted - currently the message is emitted only for drivers that
have already provided mc_setprop/mc_getprop entry points.

--Sowmini