10G link properties [PSARC/2009/206 Self Review]

[Paul Durrant]

Peter Memishian wrote:
> It seems a shame to clutter the dladm link property space (and thus dladm
> show-linkprop output) with this sea of related knobs when we could instead
> use the same syntax that dladm show-ether uses to report this information
> and have a single "speed-duplex" link property that takes a list -- e.g.:
> 
>   dladm set-linkprop -p speed-duplex=10G-f,1G-f net0
> 
> It would also mean we wouldn't need to add a new property with every bump
> in speed.
> 
> There's a bug logged on this: 6804384.
> 

Architecturally it may be nicer, however I think a redesign of the dladm 
linkprops is beyond the scope of this case.

   Paul