On (06/17/08 15:21), Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > I got carried away agreeing, a tad too violently, with code reviewers, > but at least I'm testing diligently. The reason we cannot do persistence > on wifi yet is that wifi "set prop" ioctls use self's /dev/net/link, and > we're ensuring that properties are loaded _before_ /dev/net/link is > opened - bam, deadlock [1]. > > When wifi is brusselized (CR 6691666) and uses DLD control device, > things will be neater and cleaner. Meanwhile, I'm restoring 'dladm > init-linkprop -w' in net-physical and calls to dladm_init_linkprop() in > RCM/etc (these calls will have no effect on ethernet). I discussed with > Cathy and she agreed with the plan. > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~artem/pers/ > > Kernel code is unchanged since last time [2].
This looks good. After you putback PSARC 2008/222, could you make a note in CR 6691666 about the exact pieces that are there as a workaround for the wifi drivers, so that they can be cleaned up with CR 6691666? --Sowmini _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
