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spl: spl - Solaris Porting Layer
spl:
spl: The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which
spl: provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes
spl: it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with
spl: relatively minimal modification.
spl: This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream
spl: Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of
spl: maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
spl: primitives.
spl: