On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:12:16PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > What if NWAM is always enabled, and is the restarted for > svc:/network/physical:default and friends. Then if > svc:/network/physical:default is enabled then NWAM will stop the > auto-magic instances and enable svc:/network/physical:default just as > svc.startd would have prior to all this. > > It'd be NWAM's job to prevent the enabling of auto-magic and legacy > instances of svc:/network/physical, but in all cases it'd be the > restarter, and it'd always be enabled if any instance of > svc:/network/physical were enabled. > > Then there'd be no need to implement restarter switching. > > And we could leave SMF event notification facilities for the next > project to come up to that bridge. > > Nico
NWAM can't always be enabled -- it needs to be possible to have alternative policy engines for networking (e.g. Sun Cluster, FishWorks, legacy files). -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
