Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM writes:
> Did you want to see this in the 20q.txt (some of it is there in
> answer to the question "what are the clients over which a change
> should be managed", but I could provide more details if you feel
> it is needed (without confusing the deliverables associated with
> 2007/429 itself).

Either the 20q or the design would be fine.  It didn't seem clear
enough to me that we're trying to get rid of ndd's use for this
purpose, or how we're telling users to make the switch.

You could do something like this in the interface table:

  ndd on drivers        Obsolete        replace with dladm

... and then include an update to the ndd man page and the release
notes that indicates what users should do.  Bonus points for making
ndd issue warnings when used in the now-obsolete manner.

I think the questionable part here is actually the timing of this
message and exactly what the message will say.  Perhaps it's too early
to be directing people to use dladm instead of ndd when this project
integrates ... ?

The design document seems to focus on the mechanics of making the
compatibility bits work.  That makes sense, but it doesn't explain
what we want users to do.

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