[crossbow-discuss] Re: Re: [networking-discuss] Announcing the CrossBow early access bits on

[Michael Lim]

Nicolas Droux wrote:
> Hi Doug
> 
> Doug Scott wrote:
> 
>>> Nicolas,
>>> I have just create a small script to create some vnics and the dladm  
>>> command gives errors (and scrambled output) with more  than 1 vnic. 
>>> Also  is the source code availiable yet?
>>
>>
>>
>> Ah, I just thought I would try it again running a 32bit kernel, and 
>> dladm show-vnic works correctly. It is just a problem with a 64bit 
>> kernel.
> 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this. From your previous email it looks like you 
> hit a known bug (6462422) causing the show-vnic output to be corrupted 
> on some platforms, we'll fix this for the next release.

and I am ready to putback the fix for this.  Basically it's an alignment
error where the kernel and user space get different values for the size
of a structure.

Unfortunately this problem popped up just as we were doing the early
access bits.

-Mike