Subject: Re: LKMs
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jed Davis <jdev@panix.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/07/2006 22:05:41
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> I'm with you. I've been hacking kernels (or the equivalent) since 1967.
> I'd much rather have LKMs. If I were king, I'd decree that *all*
> device drivers must be loadable, and *all* device drivers should be
> dynamically loaded except for those that are necessary to boot the
> system and read in new device drivers.
Why stop there? FreeBSD's bootloader can grab modules (e.g., acpi.ko)
from the same source as the kernel and link them in, IIRC; and in at
least some parts of the Linux world it's common to do something
similar with an initrd (though I'm not terribly fond of that
particular approach).
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