> > This all seems reasonable for what's proposed, but I wonder how it might > > be extended to handle an additional case that's come up in another thread. > > In particular, ndd currently allows one to effectively change the default > > value, > > Not sure I follow- could you provide an example? At least for datalink > drivers, afaik, ndd allows one to set or get values (typically the MII > parameters), and the "default" here is intended to be the value > that the driver would come up with when it attaches.
I'm not talking specifically about drivers, but about ndd in general. As we were recently discussing, most of the IP ndd tunables effectively change the per-stack default. I think that same concept has merit at the datalink layer and as such I was hoping our design could account for that being implemented one day without ending up with knots or warts in the exposed GLDv3 API. (But given that this is consolidation private at this point, we have time to evolve this.) -- meem
