ZFCP HBA API Library

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Introduction

ZFCP HBA API Library is part of an implementation of FC-HBA for the ZFCP device driver. The ZFCP device driver is a FCP device driver for Linux on zSeries. The whole implementation of FC-HBA for the ZFCP device driver is called ZFCP HBA API. Its implementation consists of ZFCP HBA API Library - a shared library which provides the API defined in FC-HBA.

Compatibility

ZFCP HBA API Library supports the API functions listed in Supported HBA API Functions. All other API functions of FC-HBA return the status HBA_STATUS_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED if possible and are listed in Not Supported HBA API Functions.

Restrictions and Peculiarities

For ZFCP HBA API the following restrictions and pecularities apply:

Installation

A source RPM and/or binary RPM "lib-zfcp-hbaapi" should be provided which will install the ZFCP HBA API Library called libzfcphbaapi.so and the corresponding header file hbaapi.h.

Logging

To log error situations in ZFCP HBA API Library two environment variables are used:

Bibliography

FC-HBA

The T11 Technical Committee. Information Technology - Fibre Channel HBA API (FC-HBA). Working Draft, Revision 14, 2004. URL http://www.t11.org

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