> But the door name is not exposed to administrators anyway, so that it does 
 > not need to have semantic meaning.

It's not directly exposed, but they will see it through pfiles(1) and in
the filesystem itself.  So I'd prefer for it to be meaningful.

 > Further, using link name as the door name only introduces unnecessary 
 > complication. The door name is derived in the attach() routine and kept in 
 > the kernel, although it can be done to update the door name every time the 
 > link name is changed, I don't see why that is necessary.

Then maybe it could just use the device name?  Or does that make things
complex somewhere else?

 > >  > b. Change the wpa to get the linkid of a specific wireless link and 
 > > store 
 > >  > that linkid locally. Therefore, it does not need to do 
 > > linkname-to-linkid 
 > >  > mapping all the time to do other operations like scan(), setkey() etc.
 > > 
 > > As above, I don't yet understand why the linkid needs to be used here.  
 > 
 > Because it will call into libdladm functions will take linkid as the 
 > argument.

OK.

-- 
meem

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