[brussels-dev] Fwd: Re: Brussels- nddcompat code review

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (03/19/08 14:10), Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> Are those "well-known" properties? (I.e. do more drivers than just bge  
> make use of those names?) If so, then you should just remap it in the  

it's not uniformly supported across drivers. And  the
lack of uniformity was the reason PSARC 2007/429 came up
with flowctrl.

But there are other outliers.. nge, for example has a bunch of
parameters for bcopy/dma thresholds. Yes, these should
be auto-tuned, but they are not, and until they are auto-tuned,
we need some way to control them.

> So, in retrospect (I think I suggested this earlier), I'd actually  
> welcome a change that did:
>
> 1) offered only well-known names via NDD
> 2) make all other private properties only available via dladm

If we are going to do this, then we may as well skip all
of the ndd compat effort, as Joost suggested.

> 3) as a consequence of #1 above, you could actually skip the separate  
> registration of property names for now, until another consumer of them  
> (dladm?) exists
>
> Something to think about, at least.
>

I think there is some value in having mac_register_private_prop
interfaces.

--Sowmini