hasn't Michael Graff said ? ...
> I must admit that kernel mods really complicate the system startup
> process.  I mean, given a split up startup script, would you think
> that it should be which of the following?
> 
> 1)  One file to load the lkm and configure it, such as procfs followed
>     by a mount, all in the same file
> or
> 2)  One file to load the mod, then a mount_procfs or something to do
>     actual mount
> 
> I would think #1 is *much* simplier.
> 
> Hmm.  Too bad there isn't on-demand kernel module loading.  Like a
> mount loads the module, an umount unloads it.  THAT would be very
> cool.
> 
you may look at FreeBSD which does demand-loading of filesystem-modules

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