> Dan Groves wrote: > >I posted a new copy of the link ID management API document to: > > > >http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/uv/link_id_management.pdf
Still catching up on this thread, so please bear with me if I'm bringing up items already discussed: thanks for putting together this doc.. it's a helpful encapsulation for other projects.. Section 2.2: - What exactly do you mean by "Vanity Naming is not responsible for ensuring all pieces of link configuration information are persistent.." Currently /sbin/dladm ensures persistency of a "set-linkprop" information. How will this happen in the smf model? Will that be done as part of the svc [re]start during boot? - is fixed_mac_addr the same as "local_mac_addr?" today? If yes, are there plans to keep the 2 in sync (local_mac_addr? can be set via obp :-() - As Seb pointed out, it would be good to have the property groups organized, instead of a flat classification. As far as implementation goes, perhaps some sort of internal "union" like definition would make sense. - follow-on question to the above: what will happen if a vanity named link (say "net1") built on top of an aggregation is switched over to bge0? i.e., some properties may be meaningfully transferred over to the new model, but some would be invalid. - Cathy made a reference to "name-value" pairs (which is how /sbin/dladm and the /etc/dladm/*.conf files today deal with input, with both name and value are handled as strings) but Dan says "I disagree that the fields we store are implementation details. How we store things is an implementation detail, but what we store and where we store are not, in my mind." Is there going to be some formal registration for each new property with strong-typing in the new proposal? Section 3.1.4: - need to add some datatype for array, since dladm allows these to be set in the repository. General: - I, at least, got somewhat confused between references to "Link Configuration Data" and "properties". It would be helpful to clarify the relation between the two, in a "Definitions" section. - a related question: I see that the difference between "property group name" and "link name" was discussed in this thread. Could you please define what the "property group name" is? Thanks, --Sowmini
