"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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