Quoth Artem Kachitchkine on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 05:32:47PM -0700: > What's the current plan for this RFE? There isn't an active project that > depends on it, which probably allows it to be on backburner. But as > usual, it might be a bit of a chicken/egg situation.
I'm not sure precisely where the RFE falls on our priorities list, but it is certainly below the current works in progress. > Project Brussels is migrating network drivers from driver.conf and ndd > tunables to dladm-based link properties. The properties are applied when > a network link is plumbed, and can also be changed on the fly via > dladm(1M). It is basically what all Solaris driver configuration should > be like, but network drivers need it the most and cannot wait for > next-gen driver.conf to come along. > > Although link properties are currently stored in a file, Clearview is > planning to move them to SMF. Our current prototype uses an SMF service > whose only job is to receive door upcalls from the kernel and push the > requested properties into the kernel - it has some boot-related issues, > scales poorly and is, by and large, an architectural wart. It would be > nice if we could use standard SMF interfaces from the kernel, at least > in the foreseeable future. I'm afraid that as long as you can make progress, your projects will have to bear the cost of working around the absence of these interfaces. It might be helpful to accumulate notes as you proceed. David
