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>The important point is that there is *no difference* between the dynamic
>and statically loaded version of a driver.  I can go into a
>/sys/compile/FOO directory and construct loadable modules from the same
>object files.

How about a statically loaded version of the kernel?  I mean, will it now
be nothing more than an aggregate of some modules?  It would be nice if
all there were were modules, and to make yourself a kernel, you just
had to stick them together..

--Chris Csanady

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