[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > 
 >  > My only other "complaint" is that the only way I've found to alter
 >  > variables in my driver is mdb -kw (not user friendly), or ndd.  Ndd
 >  > confuses the heck out of me, and I would dearly love to have some
 >  > abstraction wrapped around it to make people with brains as small as
 >  > mine be able to use it.  It seems about 5x as hard as sysctl and 10x
 >  > as hard as ethtool, for example.  Maybe I just have a mental block.
 > 
 > My recent proposal for dladm/wifi proposes a new "link properties"
 > mechanism for dladm(1M) that we hope will present a convenient and easy
 > way to administer link-specific properties.  Right now, the properties are
 > specific to WiFi, but the current plan is to extend this to adjust other
 > per-link properties.

I just read this.  The part that concerns me is in 2.3:

  "... Unlike legacy utilities such as ndd, the semantics and allowed
  values of each property will be known to dladm, reducing the
  incidence of administrative mistakes:"

Does this mean that I don't have any way to use a custom property in
my driver? (eg, dladm set-prop -p fluxcapacitor=on myri10ge0).  Or
does it mean that the driver needs to supply the semantics?

Drew

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