On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 09:11 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Sebastien Roy wrote: > > 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? > > > > Its via ddi_prop_update_int(). While this could be administratively > tuned, the intent is that the property is created programatically. > > I need the property to exist fairly early, so having a driver set it up > in attach() seemed like the least intrusive way of handling this.
Right, and doesn't the driver create a mii handle in attach? It seems odd that something that will never need to be tuned ends up in a .conf file. It's your call though, I don't have a strong opinion over this private workaround. (+1) -Seb