So, before the bug is fixed by NICDrv team, can we just modify /opt/SUNWstc-nicdrv/config.vars to change driver speed? or what is the correct procedure?
Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "yuan.fan" <[email protected]> To: <uvr+opensolaris at Sun.COM> Cc: "tian robin luo" <Robin.Luo at Sun.COM>; <testing-discuss at opensolaris.org>; "Tom Chen" <chentom60 at hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [testing-discuss] possible reason for test13 failure > UVR ??: >> yuan.fan wrote at Mon Mar 30 2009 22:14:52 GMT-0700 (PDT): >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks. I was looking at the latest auto_nicdrv_0330.tar.bz2 >>>> and indeed it downloads the latest version of the test suite. >>>> That is great. However, as Tom Chen pointed out on the other >>>> thread, it does appear that the install.ksh script is running >>>> stf_configure with root permissions. I am not sure why this >>>> is necessary -- STF should be able to handle stf_configure >>>> being run as a non-root user (it does, for every other test >>>> suite). Why is it necessary to run stf_configure as root for >>>> the nicdrv test suite? >>>> >>>> -UVR. >>> >>> Hi Ravindra >>> In the stf_configure process,NICDRV disable/enable some system services >>> and do some >>> configuration on the peer machine with rsh. >>> So nicdrv needs users have the root permission. >>> thanks >>> -yuan.fan >> >> I'm sorry, the explanation does not seem to be valid. I am not >> convinced that stf_configure must be invoked as root. >> >> I assume that the script which you are describing is running the >> remote disable/enable on the peer machine is this: >> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/suites/net/nicdrv/configure.ksh >> >> If so, it is already declared as an STF_ROOT_CONFIGURE script: >> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/suites/net/nicdrv/Makefile >> >> What this says is that 'stf_configure' should be invoked as >> non-root. stf_configure will prompt the user for the root >> password during execution. After that, STF will take care >> of switching to 'root' user; it will run the configure script >> on the local host and peer as 'root'. At least, this is what >> STF is designed to do. >> > Hi Ravindra > It seems it's a nicdrv bug,I will file a bug against NICDRV. > > thanks > -yuan.fan >
