[9fans] kernel modules

[Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>]

Maybe I'm wrong, because I'm kind of sleepy, but I think
that you said that the plan was to add loadable module
support and after that, maybe put usb (and perhaps others)
into the kernel.

I've been thinking about it and I think it's not a problem
at all to have everything compiled inside the kernel.
I know this does not include all allocated memory in use
by the kernel, but

872411t + 1555144d + 108904b = 2536459	9pcdisk

2.5 Mbytes (say, 5 Mbytes while running)
is a pretty low ammount of memory this days. Of course this
does not account for fossil et al.

Isn't it enought just to be able to power on/off the
different devices? Even when they contend for a resource,
we can shut down all but the one that we want. There's no
need to load/unload them.

Is the complexity added worth? For instance,
my kernel is a 1.9% of the machine memory?? (maybe a 4%
while running, but that's in a 128M machine, which
is pretty low these days).

I'd love to see this thing stay as simple as feasible;
just had to say it.