From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 21 09:12:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A669B16A469 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:12:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrenr@freebsd.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A1A13C4A7 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:12:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrenr@freebsd.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A222EE4E; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:12:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:12:43 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: vDjfWnp9Y5Gv6hMFFiBHyHv82cyt7AGbwWZH/iurH6vh 1190365963 Received: from [192.168.1.235] (64-142-85-108.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [64.142.85.108]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BEB20AD0; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:12:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46F38B59.9070707@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:14:01 -0700 From: Darren Reed User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Birrell References: <6385B28C-01D1-459A-9543-E36C89C7F36E@xview.net> <20070920203413.GA13737@what-creek.com> <46F367E0.4000300@freebsd.org> <20070921070347.GA17990@what-creek.com> In-Reply-To: <20070921070347.GA17990@what-creek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Olivier Warin , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dtrace port status X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:12:49 -0000 John Birrell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:42:40PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote: > > John Birrell wrote: > > >DTrace consists mainly of kernel modules, however in order for DTrace > > >to inspect the kernel internals it has to have some code inside > > >existing BSD licensed files. > > > > > > > This should not be a problem. > > Code added to BSD licensed files should be BSD licensed. > > Only if it is clean-room coded. > So find someone who hasn't read that email, write up a spec for the missing fields that dtrace requires and ask them to implement and commit the change to the dtrace branch on freebsd.org ? :) Darren