Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:12:26 +0100 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org>, 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: <5560c48c-097e-c6a7-4f51-1bd9b2b854bf@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPrugNr31Ds-oNWd0QLZ%2BFheWM8jch25uzN=0GuBRwBRb12B%2Bw@mail.gmail.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> <CAPrugNr31Ds-oNWd0QLZ%2BFheWM8jch25uzN=0GuBRwBRb12B%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/14/18 1:35 AM, Matthew Macy wrote: > 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe 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. It should definitely be in sys/conf/NOTES. That may have just been oversight of whoever finally fixed 'options ZFS' to work. -- John Baldwin
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