[brussels-dev] Brussels: NDD compatiblity support [PSARC/2008/171 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (03/05/08 20:53), Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>  > I would be happier to see consistent naming in the APIs though,
>
>> admittedly.  Perhaps this can be rectified with a follow-on
>> fast-track
>>  > for Brussels.  (Things like this are one of the reasons that I've
>> been  > hesitant in the past to raise commitment levels of Nemo
>> related
>> APIs too  > quickly, btw.)
>>
>> Why not fix this now?  (The existing Brussels DLD_* constants can be
>> dealt
>> with at another time.)
>>   
>
> For this case, I'll leave that decision up to the project team.   
> (Clearly the existing Brussels API will need to be changed at some
> point
> as well.)
>

I'm a little lost in the replies that were going around
last night. What exactly do we want to fix? As I said earlier,
the convention right now is that the DLD*PROP ioctls have 
prop numbers prefixed with "DLD". Both libdladm and the drivers
need access to the property numbers, and libdladm issues the 
DLD*ioctl. 

Piling a re-org of all this in the "ndd compat" case runs the
risk of worsening any incongruities that exist. 

--Sowmini