Today, all network drivers (including physical network device drivers and 
pseudo drivers like aggr) have the same device policy - net_rawaccess for 
both read and write. However, Solaris allows the device policy to be changed 
on the per-driver basis using add_drv(1m).

My question is whether anyone knows there is any real case making use of the 
per-driver device policy for any good effect, and whether we could only 
apply the default policy, but remove[1] the ability to set per-device policy 
rules, without hurting anyone.

Thanks
- Cathy

[1] We'd like to remove the per-device policy because a goal of Clearview 
network vanity naming project is to move the administrative model away from 
the underlying hardware. But allowing specifying the per-driver policy 
deviates from what we'd like to see.

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