> So I'm not a kernel programmer, so I may be speaking completely out of
> my ass here, but would it be possible to to strip all of the
> netcard/soundcard/USB/whathaveyou drivers out of the kernel and turn
> them into LKMs? Granted, you'd still want bus and scsi drivers (for boot

what a problem that generic is big?

no one really use it for real use, just to detect all hardware first time.

then you have to build your own kernel. and that's right way to do - not
having 1000 of modules like in Redhat linux where most "administrators"
never built their own kernel.