On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you absolutely sure you need a custom property? Or is there a > possibility of self-tuning? >
This isn't really the issue. Developers will want custom properties even if they don't need them and, by Solaris not providing a common generic mechanism, developers will be forced into providing their own. This sort of fragmentation only harms an 'approachable' system. Providing a mechanism for a user to set a module global dynamically is trivial. Provide a shell script that does: echo '<my module>`<my global>/W <val>' | mdb -wk However, for years I have not userstood why ndd has not been replaced with a tool that simply dynamically updates driver properties. That enhancement was present in the custom 2.6 kernel used on the Netra-ft 1800 boxes. I'm sure it would be less than a week's work to fold it into the mainstream kernel. Paul PS: I never did the work myself mainly because I was assured 'Greenline would fix it'. -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
