> > * I notice that Crossbow plans to extend show-dev. Post-UV, show-dev > > still deals with device names, whereas the other show-<foo> commands > > deal with link names. Accordingly, we've added a show-phys > > subcommand that describes "physical links" by their linkname, and > > obsoleted show-dev (see section 4.1.2 and section 4.1.3. of [1] for > > more details). Would it be reasonable for this new functionality to > > be folded into show-phys? > > If the option is specific to devices I agree. If there's a chance > that this information might be applicable to other types of links, > then we might want to expose them through show-link. For example, we > might down the road expose expose MAC address slots and factory MAC > address from aggregations. In this case, should we have an option > that shows that information as part of show-phys and show-aggr, or > should we show that information via show-link since it might apply to > different types of links.
Agreed. As long as we can keep new things out of show-dev, I'm happy :-) > > * Similarly, as we've discussed in the past, a number of the new > > dladm "-d <dev>" options need to become "-l <link>" post-UV. > > Agreed. We've kept the man page in sync with ONNV since that's what > we're based on today. As soon as UV and Crossbow merge, then we'll > update the option names accordingly to be consistent across the board. Cool. -- meem
