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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:10:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>,  Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org>, Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kernel build failure
Message-ID:  <201808140210.w7E2AeOs039933@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <YTOPR0101MB182026F2D1CBA069F3D758B1DD380@YTOPR0101MB1820.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

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> 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe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.

The consensus here should be that options ZFS is totally valid.

> >> 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)?

I am not asking that we distribute a statically linked kernel,
that does create an issue for a GPL kernel, but not for a BSD kernel,
I am asking that we continue to be able to statically link ZFS
into the kernel as we have been able to for some time.

For a very short period of time due to mmacy commit this was
broken, he quickly fixed it, so this is a moot issue again.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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