https://jira.whamcloud.com This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 9.4.14 940014 05-12-2023 https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5712 Lustre <p>Features like Dynamic LNet Config (<a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-2456" title="Dynamic LNet Config Main Development Work" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-2456"><del>LU-2456</del></a>) create an LGPL library so user space users do not have to adopt the GPL in their own source. However, the libcfs library, which is GPL, is still depended upon for things like the ioctl communication layer for communicating with Lustre modules in kernel space.</p> <p>This ticket is proposing the creation of a new LGPL library which replicates some features of libcfs but in a LGPL library. Two specific areas identified by the Dynamic LNet Config project for this library are:</p> <p>1- ioctl interface layer<br/> 2- various conversion routines for dealing with things like NIDs in LNet</p> <p>In addition, keeping this library leaner than libcfs will help reduce the required storage for user space applications.</p> LU-5712

Derive LGPL library from libcfs

Improvement Minor Resolved Duplicate WC Triage Doug Oucharek Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:16:21 +0000 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:36:48 +0000 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:36:48 +0000 0 8 <p>A few suggestions for this work I like to purpose. One is separate out the user land code from the libcfs headers and place them with this library. Currently the libcfs headers are a tangled mess. Secondly we should place the procfs/sysfs parameter handling here instead of liblustreapi. This way light weight routers don't need to carry liblustreapi on them. It looks like all the parsing can be ported to the getopt api which is a portable standard.</p> <p>James Simmons (uja.ornl@gmail.com) uploaded a new patch: <a href="http://review.whamcloud.com/13424" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://review.whamcloud.com/13424</a><br/> Subject: <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5712" title="Derive LGPL library from libcfs" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-5712"><del>LU-5712</del></a> libcfs: merge libcfs.a into libcfsutil.a<br/> Project: fs/lustre-release<br/> Branch: master<br/> Current Patch Set: 1<br/> Commit: 2818bcd77aefbc50a1d70802886341cdd637cede</p> <p>Closing as a duplicate of <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5969" title="Create an LGPL version of liblustreapi" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-5969">LU-5969</a></p> Duplicate LU-5969 Development Rank 1|hzwy13: Rank (Obsolete) 16026