From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sun Aug 19 06:12:29 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815C71084819 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 06:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 289A989CD5; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 06:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from John-Baldwins-MacBook-Pro-2.local (unknown [51.52.172.98]) by mail.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0A3CB10A87D; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:12:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: kernel build failure To: Matthew Macy , Rick Macklem References: <201808131628.w7DGSvOm037857@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net, =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=c3=b8l?= , Michael Butler , freebsd-current From: John Baldwin Message-ID: <5560c48c-097e-c6a7-4f51-1bd9b2b854bf@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:12:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mail.baldwin.cx); Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:12:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mail.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 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: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 06:12:29 -0000 On 8/14/18 1:35 AM, Matthew Macy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:33 PM Rick Macklem 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe 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. It should definitely be in sys/conf/NOTES. That may have just been oversight of whoever finally fixed 'options ZFS' to work. -- John Baldwin