> d. Do we still need special handling for wifi devices in network-physical? 
> Also, is it possible for "dladm init-linkprop" to take one specific name 
> (which requires the changes in the do_init_linkprop() function)?

Artem can confirm, but we'll need this as long as the wifi drivers
are not converted to provide Brussels callbacks.. we're working with
the wifi team to eliminate the wifi ioctls and replace them
with Brussels callbacks..

> e. I don't think we should to keep the link property values in the kernel 
> and we can safely remove the whole dls_prop.c file, especially that 1) 
> today there are no consumers for that, and 2) some of link properties 
> simply do not go through the dls_set_prop() code path. If we need the 
> kernel copy one day, it should be easy to add them back.

I would still vote in favor of keeping them.. as Artem pointed out it 
helps with providing mdb support for finding what customizations
were done when we are looking at a crash dump. This was one of the
big complaints about ndd- that we can't figure out this information
from a crash dump easily.

--Sowmini

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