libhbalinux

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve re-released our HBAAPI vendor library for Linux. We named it libhbalinux. It’s now using standard kernel interfaces to obtain information about the FC HBAs in the system. We licesenced it under the LGPL so that the library is open source but may also be used by proprietary managment applications. What we published is a good start that we plan to continue to develop on. We hope that this vendor library will become the default HBAAPI vendor library for Linux. At this point contributions and questions should take place on the Open-FCoE development mailing list.

The repository is visible on our gitweb page and is accessable from the following git URL.

git://open-fcoe.org/openfc/libhbalinux.git

We’ll also add new options to fcoeadm to display information about Open-FCoE HBAs using libhbalinux.