Re: Dtrace port status

From: John Birrell <jb_at_what-creek.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:11:06 +0000
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 08:47:48AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> For something like this example, I would suggest putting those fields in
> a separate structure declared in a CDDL licensed file and then embed
> that structure in our thread. I'm guessing not all of your problems are
> quite this tidy though.

Then it can't be in GENERIC by default. That cuts out one of the
major DTrace features - you are supposed to be able to run DTrace
at any time, even if it involves loading kernel modules (which
Solaris does on demand).

For the example I used, every thread has to have the space allocated
even though the DTrace modules aren't loaded. And to do that it
has to be entirely BSD licensed code. The DTrace modules themselves
can be CDDL'd just like kernel modules may be GPL'd. So there
can't be any include file tricks. If it's code that has to be in the
GENERIC kernel, then all the headers have to be BSD licensed.

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John Birrell
Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 06:08:07 UTC

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