> What administrative model you mean here. > > Whenever these applications (which is libdladm API users) need to export > this link to the administrative modle, they should call the > dladm_linkid2info() to get the link name, and only show link names.
Yes, they should. But that requires educating any application developers that might use the APIs -- otherwise, we'll probably end up with commands growing various options that take linkids. We already have this today with commands that operate on IP interfaces, like ping's -i option, which can take either an IP interface name or an index (aka ID). That said, I don't see a way to avoid this problem. -- meem
