kernel build failure

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe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.

The consensus here should be that options ZFS is totally valid.

> >> 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)?

I am not asking that we distribute a statically linked kernel,
that does create an issue for a GPL kernel, but not for a BSD kernel,
I am asking that we continue to be able to statically link ZFS
into the kernel as we have been able to for some time.

For a very short period of time due to mmacy commit this was
broken, he quickly fixed it, so this is a moot issue again.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org