[driver-discuss] Re: [brussels-dev] dladm show-linkprop enhancements

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (06/26/07 16:03), Peter Memishian wrote:
> 
>  > LINK         PROPERTY        VALUE          DEFAULT        POSSIBLE             
>  > <foo>         zone             ...
>  > <foo>         mtu              ...
>  > 
>  > Ethernet properties:
>  > 
>  >   LINK       DUPLEX   CAPABLE       ADV           PEERADV
>  >   <foo>       half     10M           10M           10M
>  >   <foo>       full     10M,100M,1G   10M,100M,1G   10M,100M
>  >   
>  > (assuming that <foo> was ethernet)
>  > 
>  > i.e., the show-linkprop command recurses once by default to produce the
>  > show-<linkclass> command?
> 
> And it would do something totally different for parseable output mode
> (otherwise, how would scripts survive)?  How would things like "-o" work?
> I don't much care for this.

Ok, so then we are back to showing output between show-linkprop and
show-<linktype>.

Since "show-linkprop" is the more general of the two (it has more of
a burden to have the same output format for all link types), and
given that we want ndd users to switch to dladm, I would venture
that show-linkprop should just print the "sea of properties" (inluding 
MII props for ethernet) and the show-<linktype> can print a concise
output (like the one above).

--Sowmini