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From: "Howard Su" <howard0su@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Modularize kernel
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On 9/7/06, gnn@freebsd.org <gnn@freebsd.org> wrote:
> At Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:47:46 +0800,
> Hello Howard,
>
> The monolithic vs. modularized kernel is an old discussion.  If you're
> really interested in pursuing this you'll have a lot of work to do,
> mostly in figuring out explicitly all the implicit inter-module
> dependencies.  Fascinating and fun, but you likely need a good reason
> to do it.
I listed the advantages I can think about. Can they convince you?

-- 
-Howard