[Lustre-devel] [wc-discuss] Important changes to libcfs primitives usage.

[Zhuravlev, Alexey]

On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:52 AM, "Liu, Xuezhao" <Xuezhao.Liu at emc.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Current the libcfs cleanup is mainly done by replacing kinds of libcfs calls with direct kernel primitives, we can implement the portable layer on other OS with the same name as Linux.
> I think the real concern is that on other OS there is possible some kernel primitives have the same name a Linux kernel but with different behavior/parameters, that will cause either compiling broken or running crashing etc.
> I don't have the full list of the above intersecting case, but it should be very rare right? We can build a separate patch( which should be small) for those intersecting cases for other OS, and I guess that patch need to be maintained separately.

originally libcfs_ prefix was introduce to cope with name collisions in Solaris. I'm not sure how this can be solved with a separate small patch.

to me the both goals look hard to achieve, so I'm fine with any solution ;)

thanks, Alex


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