Re: kernel build failure

On 8/14/18 1:35 AM, Matthew Macy wrote:
> 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe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.

It should definitely be in sys/conf/NOTES.  That may have just been oversight
of whoever finally fixed 'options ZFS' to work.

-- 
John Baldwin