On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Andrey Petrov wrote:

> It could be done by kernel linker(loader) so he'll be responsible  
> for module loading
> and initialization, and so it wouldn't be needed to code  
> dependiencies explicitly.

Hmm... For things that would be loaded at run-time, that would work  
great... but not so well for things statically compiled into the  
kernel.  Though, a string-based dependency list for those things  
statically compiled in could be made to work, too.

-- thorpej