Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:35:18 -0700 From: Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net, =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=C3=B8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>, Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kernel build failure Message-ID: <CAPrugNr31Ds-oNWd0QLZ%2BFheWM8jch25uzN=0GuBRwBRb12B%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <YTOPR0101MB182026F2D1CBA069F3D758B1DD380@YTOPR0101MB1820.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> References: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808131129430.69607@mail.fig.ol.no> <201808131628.w7DGSvOm037857@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <YTOPR0101MB182026F2D1CBA069F3D758B1DD380@YTOPR0101MB1820.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:33 PM Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:39-0700, Matthew Macy wrote: > >> > >> > Sorry guys, last time I touched ZFS I tried to push to make it an > option to > >> > statically link and was actually told that it wasn't something anyone > else > >> > wanted. The issue comes from ZFS not being in NOTES and thus not in > LINT. > >> > >> If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe > >> UPDATING should reflect the fact. > >> > >> I can live with loading zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko at boot time, but I > >> think this is a step backwards. > > > >Please no, I can think of no sound reason that you should be > >forced to use modules. > I thought that ZFS was required to be a module because of the licensing > terms (they didn't want any CDDL code in the core kernel)? > It can't be in _GENERIC_ for that reason. There's no reason it can't be in LINT or end users can't configure a CDDL tainted kernel. -M > rick > >
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