[brussels-dev] PSARC 2008/171 mac_register_priv_prop()

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (03/19/08 14:14), Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 
> I prefer table based registration, for sure. But I actually have a  
> different suggestion.

mac_register_private_prop is also needed for making private
props known to gldv3 for the purpose of dladm, as we discussed
earlier.

>
> The only consumer for these at present is NDD. What I'd do is abandon  
> attempts to support the outliers via NDD, unless there was enough users  
> of the "outlier" to justify promotion to a "well-known" alias or  
> somesuch (e.g. if all NSN drivers use a certain alternate spelling, then  
> you should silently convert it in the framework, with no extra effort on  
> the part of the driver.)

Well the problem is that each driver has these variants for 
flow-control. Some drivers have "specials" for bcopy/dma
thresholds etc. Yes, these should be converted to dladm, but 
we are trying to provide ndd compatibility, so I'm afraid we're
stuck with supporting this with ndd for a while.


--Sowmini