> In my opinion, as crummy as the current model is, it is the one that > administrators have learned to live with. I don't think it is worth > changing. > > In fact, I think we ought to be discouraging direct access to these > auto-negotiation parameters. The reality is that administrators should > never be touching them -- everything should be left enabled -- > especially in the era of modern full-duplex and gigabit (and 10 gigabit) > links.
I asked Sowmini to look into this because the existing model makes the dladm show-linkprop output unpleasant to work with. As you say, folks should not be touching these -- so it'd be better if they weren't so prominent. Yes, it's a small thing; I make no apologies for being a picky bastard ;-) -- meem
