diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/Makefile b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/Makefile
index 52492fb10f85..e276fe2bf8f3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_LNET) += lnet.o
 
-lnet-y := api-ni.o config.o					\
+lnet-y := api-ni.o config.o nidstrings.o			\
 	  lib-me.o lib-msg.o lib-eq.o lib-md.o lib-ptl.o	\
 	  lib-socket.o lib-move.o module.o lo.o			\
 	  router.o router_proc.o acceptor.o peer.o
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/nidstrings.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/nidstrings.c
similarity index 99%
rename from drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/nidstrings.c
rename to drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/nidstrings.c
index a54594a3ad5d..81ec3a8ec650 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/nidstrings.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/nidstrings.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  * This file is part of Lustre, http://www.lustre.org/
  * Lustre is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  *
- * libcfs/libcfs/nidstrings.c
+ * lnet/lnet/nidstrings.c
  *
  * Author: Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
  */
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
 #include "../../include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h"
 #include "../../include/linux/lnet/lnet.h"
 
+/* max value for numeric network address */
+#define MAX_NUMERIC_VALUE 0xffffffff
+
 /* CAVEAT VENDITOR! Keep the canonical string representation of nets/nids
  * consistent in all conversion functions.  Some code fragments are copied
  * around for the sake of clarity...
@@ -64,12 +67,13 @@ void libcfs_init_nidstrings(void)
 {
 	spin_lock_init(&libcfs_nidstring_lock);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(libcfs_init_nidstrings);
 
-static char *
+char *
 libcfs_next_nidstring(void)
 {
-	char	  *str;
-	unsigned long  flags;
+	char *str;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&libcfs_nidstring_lock, flags);
 
@@ -80,6 +84,7 @@ libcfs_next_nidstring(void)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&libcfs_nidstring_lock, flags);
 	return str;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(libcfs_next_nidstring);
 
 static int libcfs_lo_str2addr(const char *str, int nob, __u32 *addr)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile
index ec98f44a10dd..03d3f3d7b1f8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ libcfs-linux-objs += linux-mem.o
 
 libcfs-linux-objs := $(addprefix linux/,$(libcfs-linux-objs))
 
-libcfs-all-objs := debug.o fail.o nidstrings.o module.o tracefile.o \
+libcfs-all-objs := debug.o fail.o module.o tracefile.o \
 		   libcfs_string.o hash.o kernel_user_comm.o \
 		   prng.o workitem.o libcfs_cpu.o \
 		   libcfs_mem.o libcfs_lock.o
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c
index bbfef983e130..896185f54c4f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs_string.c
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ cfs_gettok(struct cfs_lstr *next, char delim, struct cfs_lstr *res)
 	res->ls_len = end - res->ls_str + 1;
 	return 1;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_gettok);
 
 /**
  * Converts string to integer.
@@ -242,6 +243,7 @@ cfs_str2num_check(char *str, int nob, unsigned *num,
 
 	return (*num >= min && *num <= max);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_str2num_check);
 
 /**
  * Parses \<range_expr\> token of the syntax. If \a bracketed is false,
@@ -406,6 +408,7 @@ cfs_expr_list_match(__u32 value, struct cfs_expr_list *expr_list)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_expr_list_match);
 
 /**
  * Convert express list (\a expr_list) to an array of all matched values
@@ -558,6 +561,7 @@ cfs_expr_list_free_list(struct list_head *list)
 		cfs_expr_list_free(el);
 	}
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_expr_list_free_list);
 
 int
 cfs_ip_addr_parse(char *str, int len, struct list_head *list)