Dan Groves wrote: > Cathy Zhou wrote: >>>> 3. How to get the link name, link class from one specific dladm_conf_t? >>>> >>> >>> I'll add an example in the examples section. >>> >> After think it more, I'd suggest to have anther function to get those >> information. Because if the link is strictly temporary, >> dladm_read_conf() for this link should fail, and I'd expect there is >> still a way to get such information for temporary links. >> >> Thanks >> - Cathy >> >> >> >> _________________________________ >> clearview-discuss mailing list >> clearview-discuss at opensolaris.org > > Right, dladm_read_conf for a temporary link should fail. Storing > temporary configuration information is the job of caller. However, > since this information is used when we create a link ID to name mapping, > how would adding an extra argument to the linkid2name and name2linkid > functions sound? > > For example: > > linkid2name(id, name, extra) > > Where extra is a pointer to a structure that holds extra data about the > link, such as class. > First, I'd suggest to use another name other than linkid2name. Second, I'd suggest to make class, and flags (temp or persistent) to be clear in the argument list, as they are arguments of create_linkid() function anyway.
Thanks - Cathy
