I'm currently working on LKM device driver support, but am running into
some problems. The biggest problem is that I can't load dependencies with
the way LKMs are currently handled. Consider the following:

 modload mii.o
 modload mii_bitbang.o
 modload mii_phy.o
 modload nsphy.o
 modload if_ex_pci.o

if_ex_pci.o depends on functions found in the other modules, but without
an in-kernel linker, I have no way of doing this easily.

So, the solution that I'm using right now, is chainloading a copy of each
dependency with each driver. I wrote a script that uses modstat and
proper use of the -A and -o flags to load a driver and any dependencies
specified on the command line.

Any ideas on a better way to do this? I don't know if I am up for adding
an in-kernel linker quite yet..

Regards,
Jared