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

[James Carlson]

Peter Memishian writes:
> 
>  > By "release taxonomy," I'm guessing that you're referring to the
>  > release binding for OpenSolaris.  Do we actually have a release
>  > binding for it yet?  Is it a major release?  What does "uname -r" say?
> 
> This is a serious rathole, but it's obvious we are making some changes for
> OpenSolaris that are incompatible with Solaris 10.  An obvious example in
> this space was removal of implicit VLANs; removing dladm link properties
> is certainly no more extreme than that.

We didn't review that change with a Major release binding -- 2006/357
has a "Minor" release binding.  We accepted it as a reasonable thing
to do, given the fact that it was possible to adopt (and recommend)
the new "create-vlan" style before upgrading, and provided that there
was an upgrade mechanism that handled the transition properly (which
the project team provided).

I think my question stands.  We don't know what the release binding
for OpenSolaris is supposed to be, and it seems precipitous to approve
or assume random changes are acceptable for "Major" release binding,
because it's a one-way trap.

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