Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > >  > The webrev is at: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~vassun08/6793859/
>  > >
>  > >  * What is the administrator supposed to think or do when they see
>  > >    "dld_handle is NULL"?  This should be reworded.  Also, what is
>  > >    the rationale for continuing on with a NULL dld_handle rather
>  > >    than failing the RCM module initialization?  (In other words, I
>  > >    know you were going to investigate this -- so what let you to
>  > >    this solution?)
>  > >
>  > >  * What is the purpose of repeatedly issuing a warning message
>  > >    about dld_handle being NULL? 
>  > >   
>  > My understanding was that the modules could still proceed without the 
>  > handle.
>
> Proceed to what end (what useful work would they do)?
>   
No, they will not do any useful work, which I understand now based on 
more testing I ran just now. thanks for the comment.
>  > But I think the better way is to just fail module initialization . In
>  > either case, the rcm_daemon has to be restarted to do any useful
>  > work. I will update the code to return failure from rcm_mod_init() and
>  > remove all the code that validate the dld_handle.
>
> OK.
>
>   

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