[lustre-devel] LibCFS and LNET module versions

James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Thu Jan 31 09:46:14 PST 2019


> All Lustre modules uses the Lustre version as their module version except for lnet and libcfs modules. Is there a specific
> reason to that?

The idea here is that lnet/libcfs is really an independent layer from 
lustre. In theory other sub systems could use it. Its true we don't
really have a numbering system. Suggestions?
 
> These version are hardcoded and never change. Tools like dkms could think some libcfs modules are the same because the version
> is the same but actually it changed a lot.
> 
> Until we decide to properly manage a real version for these modules, could it be possible to also use Lustre version for them?



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