[brussels-dev] Re: Removing of bge's duplicate kstat entries

[Raymond LI - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China]

Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > > Currently we have two duplicate kstat blocks in bge. One is "mii", 
>  > > which is duplicate with "mac" MII/GMII kstat of Nemo. Another is 
>  > > "parameters", which is kstat copy of  ndd.
>  > >
>  > > Now we are clearing duplicate entries of bge and hope to remove those 
>  > > duplicate parts. If your admin scripts use things like "kstat 
>  > > bge:0:mii" or "kstat bge:0:parameters", you might run into 
>  > > compatibility problems after the clearing. The right way to retrive 
>  > > above infor should be something like "kstat bge:0:mac" and "ndd 
>  > > /dev/bge0 xxx" instead.
>  > >
>  > > I wonder if there is any issues with the plan to removing those 
>  > > duplicate entries. Please advice.
>
> Sounds fine to me, but could you elaborate on whether the remaining kstats
> will names and semantics that are consistent those exported from other
> drivers?
>
>   
Now, we have only found bge/nge has this problem(dup entries). So we 
will need to clean both bge & nge to keep the consistent among drivers.