On (07/03/09 18:27), zeeshanul huq - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China wrote: > I suggest we provide two types of private properties: one is visible, > another is hidden. > One example of visible private properties is _adv_2500fdx_cap and > _adv_2500fdx_en of bnxe driver. They are private only because they are > not common (yet?), I think.
We discussed this in the early phases of Brussels, and having this gray area of "somewhat public" was discarded for the reason that it gets confusing.. in the 2500fdx example, the property will become public as the feature becomes common, and that natural evolution should work ok. > And an example of hidden private properties is the _drain_max property > of bge driver. It is a tunable just for developers and PAE to tune the > driver, because we don't think 64 is the ultimate perfect value. right, and drain_max is a good example of something that we don't want to display in the default 'show-linkprop' output- a perfect "dont try this without supervision" tunable. --Sowmini _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
