incremental static module addition to kernel

[John Reiser <jreiser BitWagon com>]

Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the
> kernel ...

How about letting the end system administrator add modules statically.
Make a utility program which uncompresses a kernel, incrementally adds
(loads, as /bin/ld) a list of modules, then re-compresses the modified
kernel.  The original kernel needs a compiled-in ["meta-"]module
to provide hooks for initialization of the added modules.

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