> > we didn't saddle the dladm show-linkprop output with them forever. In > > other words, I don't want show-linkprop to become a dump. > > the legacy tunables, or private props will not be displayed > by dladm. i.e, if I do "dladm show-linkprop", it will only display > public properties. If I *know* the name of a private property, > then I could obtain its values by > # dladm show-linkprop -p _private_prop_name > and I would be able to view its value. > > There have been requests from QE etc. that dladm should > support some way of listing private property names, and if > we choose to support this request, then we should figure > out how to list the names in dladm's columnar format, but > we have not crossed that bridge yet (and that is out of the > scope of PSARC 2008/171).
I see. I agree it's beyond the scope of this case and I'm fine with the current behavior (though I agree with QE that there should be a mechanism provided to see the private properties). -- meem
