Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > On (01/31/08 09:15), Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> Out of curiousity, why isn't link state recorded for links other than >> DL_ETHER? For WiFi it could be recorded, although it has a more complex >> link state mechanism (down, associated, authenticated, up). > > As I was mentioning in my mail to Seb, there's a separate effort > to be undertaken, to get the wifi drivers to export public props. > At that time, we'll be converting more of these to ANYMEDIATYPE.
A related question, though one that can be addressed outside the scope of this particular code-review, is what is the harm in letting libdladm send down a request for the state, and having the driver answer, "I don't know what you're talking about", instead of encoding support for various types in libdladm itself? -Seb
