On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19:30AM -0700, Peter Memishian wrote: > > > I checked the code. looks like its safe to allow this. mci_name need not > > be unique. we identify the primary mac client (the one used by DLS) using > > the flag MAC_CLIENT_FLAGS_PRIMARY, not mci_name. > > So what is the intended purpose of mci_name? Clearly it is not to uniquely > identify an object. >
right now there is a kstat and flow name that's tied with this. all of these get renamed together. as long as the mac client doesn't call mac_unicast_add(), the kstat won't be created. the flow name doesn't matter since this is an internal, not user-defined, flow. eric
