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

[Peter Memishian]

 > > 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.

I'm not asking for a redesign with this case, but the current scheme can
and should be improved upon, and if we do that we will probably need to
declare what's being defined here (and the other similar tunables) as
obsolete (or just yank them entirely, depending on the perceived impact).

-- 
meem