On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 11:42 -0800, Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems
wrote:
> Solution
>
> We propose to provide a mechanism whereby NIC drivers can change the
> starting address for the PHY search. (The first address matched is
> identified.) This is done via a driver property ("first-phy"), which
> indicates the address of the first PHY to be checked. (By default the
> first address searched will be 1, going through 31, and then finally
> searching at 0.) Note that all 32 addresses will checked; the search
> starts at the first-phy (or 1 if not set), checks each address in ascending
> order, loops around at 31 and continues the search at address 0.
>
> The new property, "first-phy" will remain Consolidation Private, along
> with the rest of the MII interfaces.
Does "driver property" mean dladm link property, or driver.conf setting,
or something else? Why wouldn't it be better to simply have the driver
call some mii_*() function to set the probe order without getting an
administrative tunable involved?
-Seb
