Raymond LI wrote:
> Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:
>>
>>> Would the properties still end up in the show-linkprop output? If so,
>>> even well-behaved admins are still subjected to a mountain of
>>> properties
>>> that they shouldn't even be using, which seems bad. Or are you
>>> proposing
>>> some way to hide these properties? (I'm nervous about that as
>>> well.) If
>>> we're sure this stuff will be off the beaten path, maybe we could
>>> reduce
>>> the number of properties to just `cap', `advcap', and `lpadvcap' (or
>>> somesuch) with a commas-separated list of values?
>>>
>>
>> I'd initially felt that we should just print the bare-basics (like
>> speed,
>> duplex, autoneg), but both Raymond and Garrett pointed out to me that
>> reducing the properties will just cause admins to regress to ndd usage.
>> We could, though, have a "show-linkprop" vs a "show-linkprop -v" - the
>> former would print the bare-basics, e.g., just the r/w props, (using the
>> same adv* names as ieee802.3(5)), and the latter could print all the
>> local/peer props in their gory glory.
>>
>>
> This seems to be better than we introduces a completely new dladm
> subcommand. But a problem is what we should put in "-v" and what not.
> Dividing by "r/w" could be a solution, but I am afraid it will not
> satisfy all customer's need. Different users might care about
> different properties, we might never know that enough. I agree that
> current kstat/ndd output of everything might not be a good practice,
> but users might already have their admin scripts based on this
> practice. If we expose things in a one-stop dladm command(show-prop),
> customer will have least pains to porting to this solution, IMHO.
IMO, it is important to separate the needs for admin scripts from the
need for direct human usage.
In other words, IMO, we need both.
I'm not sure I understand the fear around creating a new subcommand,
that shows only ethernet specific information? (Btw, this could be
done for tun, aggr, or other link types as well. In fact we have it
already for aggr and wifi, with dladm show-aggr and dladm show-wifi.)
-- Garrett
>> --Sowmini
>>
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