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

[Peter Memishian]

 > > 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.
 > 
 > the legacy tunables, or private props will not be displayed
 > by dladm. i.e, if I do "dladm show-linkprop", it will only display
 > public properties. If I *know* the name of a private property,
 > then I could obtain its values by
 >   # dladm show-linkprop -p _private_prop_name  
 > and I would be able to view its value. 
 > 
 > There have been requests from QE etc. that dladm should
 > support some way of listing private property names, and if
 > we choose to support this request, then we should figure
 > out how to list the names in dladm's columnar format, but 
 > we have not crossed that bridge yet (and that is out of the
 > scope of PSARC 2008/171). 

I see.  I agree it's beyond the scope of this case and I'm fine with
the current behavior (though I agree with QE that there should be a
mechanism provided to see the private properties).

-- 
meem