On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Peter Memishian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   > To facilitate testing, it would seem to be nice to be able to switch
>   > between the current closed driver and ours.  Our thinking is to
>   > perhaps call the driver 'cge' (which seems to be more in line with the
>   > current naming scheme), and just use add_drv / rem_drv to switch
>   > between the two.  The first question, is does this seem like a
>   > reasonable approach, or might someone suggest any better techniques?
>   >
>   > The other issue is that we don't want to paint ourselves into a
>   > corner.  I have seen mention of some nightmares around network driver
>   > renames in the past.  The second question is would the vanity naming
>   > support (once integrated of course) eliminate this issue?
>
>  From what you've described, vanity naming will indeed eliminate the issue.
>  BTW, it integrated into build 83, so you can already take it for a spin.
>  For more information, please see:
>
>      http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/docs/vnameoverview.pdf
>      http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/uv/howto/
>
>  Have fun :-)

Wow.. I can't believe I missed that.  Well that takes care of that issue.
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