kernel build failure

[Matthew Macy]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:33 PM Rick Macklem <rmacklem at 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe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.
-M




> rick
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