Jason King wrote: > Would we want to be more generic and make the goal a generic > annotation feature to kstats (of which stability attributes would be > one sort of annotation), or stay strictly with stability annotations > (I'm not sure one is any more or less difficult than the other)?
Given that the kstat interface is stable within the code delivered at a specific kernel (i.e. if I have kernel 112233-36, it will always have the same kstats and they will have the same meaning. They might change in a hypothetical 112233-37, but at least -36 is stable) The kernel version could be exposed as an SNMP object, and checked against by a tool that was sensitive to such variation. Or tools that handle the variability wouldn't have to. Linking the kstat metric with a string name would be as reliable as using perl to look for that string in the /usr/bin/kstat output, but more walkable. --Joe _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
