[brussels-dev] softmac and Brussels public properties

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (01/28/08 11:58), Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Playing around with today's Nevada nightly on a system with a Cassini 
> card, I can't help but be annoyed at the following bit of output from 
> show-linkprop:
> 
> bash-3.2# dladm show-linkprop
> LINK         PROPERTY        VALUE          DEFAULT        POSSIBLE
> ce0          autopush        --             --             --
> ce0          zone            --             --             --
> ce0          link_duplex     full           full           half,full
> ce0          ifspeed         1000           1000           10,100,1000
> ce0          link_up         up             up             up,down
> ce0          adv_autoneg_cap ?              1              1,0
> ce0          default_mtu     ?              --             68-9000
> ...
> 
> The "?" for the "default_mtu" property is just unnecessarily lame, since 
> the entire Nemo framework, including the softmac module acting on the 
> behalf of the ce driver, know what the MTU of ce0 is.  Would it make 
> sense to have the softmac driver implement a mc_getprop() that returns a 
> valid MTU?  It seems like a no-brainer to me.

yes!  

Another rfe on the top of my todo list was to pass down the linkid
itself instead of hopping between linkname to linkid in user/kernel
space. 

--Sowmini