Sebastien Roy wrote:
> 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)
>
It doesn't end up in the .conf file, unless an administrator puts it
there (which would probably be a bad idea.) Instead, its created
programmatically during attach().
Thanks.
- Garrett
