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Re: Why *are* the kernels monolithic?

From: Marsh J. Ray (marsh-obsdmysteray.com)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 04:42:50 CDT


Matt Provost wrote:

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>I'm not a big fan of LKMs on FreeBSD, and on Linux their main purpose in
>life seems to be to allow vendors to supply binary-only modules.
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Linus Torvald's position on the subject is consistently against vendors
distributing binary-only modules.

Here's just one post on a continuously-ongoing discussion:
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/Dec/1042.html

- Marsh