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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:57:35 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
Cc:        "Cai, Quanqing" <caiquanqing@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDTRACE is gone?
Message-ID:  <20061122165735.GA37930@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061122051359.GA42639@what-creek.com>
References:  <2b22951e0611212109t69b01400q5eb0ba15b028ce68@mail.gmail.com> <20061122051359.GA42639@what-creek.com>

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On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:14:00AM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:09:21PM -0800, Cai, Quanqing wrote:
> > Today when I tried to compile my customized kernel, I run "config"
> > command and got this: unknown option "KDTRACE".
> >=20
> > Who can tell me what's going on?
>=20
> The KDTRACE option can't work the way I intended it to because
> of licensing restrictions.

By which John means that it could easily be included in FreeBSD under
'options KDTRACE' as before so that users could actually use DTRACE in
FreeBSD.  However, it can't be included in GENERIC since the policy of
FreeBSD is and always has been that GENERIC is a BSD-licensed kernel.
With John's preferred change GENERIC would become under the CDDL.

Kris

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