Garrett D'Amore writes: > A good example is the "link-pulse-disabled" property. I can't see any > reason why anyone would ever want to disable the link pulse. hme forces > the card into 10 Mbps half duplex operation when this is done. Are > there 10 Mbps hubs out there that are both still in use, and don't > support the link pulse (which is required by the standard!)? I'd just > assume eliminate this hackery.
These all sound like good bit-bucket candidates. > Oh yeah, one other thing: this is only for Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris. > I have no plans for any of this to backport to S10 (at least not for > *existing* drivers.) Note that (at least for now) there really is no upgrade plan for S10 to anything newer, so the required compatibility story is more than a bit up in the air. However, all of the things that you mentioned sound like the sort of weird old hacks that we have traditionally allowed to fall under a passing release train every now and again. Sometimes we even break whole feature sets (like Mobile IP) just to see if anyone's still paying attention. :-] -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
