LSO and HW TX Checksum Link Properties [PSARC/2009/345 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2009]

[James Carlson]

Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Vasumathi Sundaram wrote:
> > Yes, it is a hack and it can be easily handled as private properties. 
> > Other operating systems support this in a more obvious way and we 
> > thought we could provide it in Solaris too. I have no inclination 
> > towards one or the other.
> 
> I prefer private properties.  IMO, no end user should ever be tweaking 
> these, unless there is a bug in the system.

Strongly agreed.  Private properties _allow_ users to hack away at the
internal system design if they want, while keeping these artifacts out
of the way of normal administrators who shouldn't be doing that.

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