Darren Reed wrote: > The OpenSolaris networking community needs to come up with a better > architecture for dladm that doesn't require a new binary to be > delivered every time new subcommands need to be added for new link > types. Not only does this hinder development of new link types (a > complete new dladm needs to be built and shipped), it is crowding > the man page for dladm(1m). That is a poor architecture and needs > to be improved. Looking at how the userland tools work with > filesystems (/usr/lib/fs, mount_pcfs(1m), etc) is recommended. > > The existing architecture of a monolithic dladm command needs > improvement and while it is outside of the scope of this project > to do that, I'd like to suggest that the ARC consider requiring > any future projects that touches dladm to provide a better > architecture for it that addresses the above concerns.
I believe that unless the intent is to provide for something higher than Consolidation Private for how to write the "plugins" for dladm I don't see this as an ARC concern as it is essentially a Project Private interface (it would be Internal other than for the fact that the "plugins" would be visible in the filesystem). -- Darren J Moffat
