[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support

Csaba Henk csaba-ml at creo.hu
Mon Feb 18 14:19:22 PST 2008


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:40:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Csaba Henk <csaba-ml at creo.hu> writes:
> > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> > > Csaba Henk <csaba-ml at creo.hu> writes:
> > > > yes, why so? FreeBSD has embraced recently a big chunk of CDDL'd
> > > > code without making much fuss about licensing [...]
> > > If you're talking about either dtrace or ZFS:
> > > [...]
> > > 2) It is not part of the GENERIC system and will remain optional due to
> > >    the license.
> > It smells like apples and oranges to me... GENERIC is the name of the
> > default configuration for the _kernel_, isnt'it?
> 
> Correct.  It was *you* who brought up the issue of CDDL code in the
> kernel.  Peter pointed out, very correctly, that the code in question is
> not included in the default kernel.

Umm, I don't mean to nit-pick, but I thought of the CDDL code in
userspace... Sorry if I was ambiguous.

Csaba


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