sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> On (06/26/07 01:06), Peter Memishian wrote:
>
>> > situation, it is the driver's responsibility to emit a log message
>> > saying when the change will be effective (e.g., the next stop/start
>> > pair). The dladm/gldv3 framework itself would not interfere with the
>> > behavior.
>>
>> While I can understand that from an implementation standpoint, from a
>> usability standpoint I don't think a log message goes far enough. The
>> person running the dladm set-linkprop subcommand needs the feedback.
>>
>
> What we could do is to have a distinct error code to
> track this case (EINTR?) that could be caught by dladm to emit
> the information to the user- would that suffice?
>
EAGAIN would be a better choice.
-- Garrett
> --Sowmini
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