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That's been recently discussed.  dhog is working on it for the next release.

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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:40:44 -0700

On Monday 26 November 2001 07:54, you wrote:
> But look: the Plan 9 kernel is a big beast, no doubt about it.   All those
> drivers, for one thing.

any opinions in this group about dynamically loading drivers.

Yeah, I know, ack, puke, but in some cases this can be very handy, esp. on
things like flash drivers which you don't normally want loaded.

ron
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