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

[Peter Memishian]

 > In earlier conversations, I was indicating that dladm needed (or would 
 > need at some point) a way to enumerate "private" properties (quite apart 
 > from ndd), so I tried to convince Sowmini to keep the APIs general.
 > 
 > I don't think we should be exposing *any* feature via ndd that we don't 
 > expose via dladm as well... in fact, I *would* like ndd to be a strict 
 > subset of functionality available with dladm.  (The smaller the subset, 
 > the better, IMO.)

But in this case ndd can be a strict subset without requiring dladm to
have identical tunables.  There are already better ways (e.g., the
flowctrl [agh, I wish there were more vowels in that] link property) to
accomplish the same end-result as these ndd legacy tunables, so I'd rather
we didn't saddle the dladm show-linkprop output with them forever.  In
other words, I don't want show-linkprop to become a dump.

--
meem