Requirements for modularisation of the SlugOS kernel

SlugOS is used as the in-flash recovery system for OpenSlug, DebianSlug and 
GentooSlug.  Therefore, I must be able to boot SlugOS to internal flash, plug 
in a usb flash key (with either ext3 or vfat formatting), and type 'mount' to 
access the contents.  I must not be required to remember other arcane commands 
(such as modprobe or insmod) between plugging in the usb key and typing mount. 
So all the modules required to do this in a modularised SlugOS kernel must 
somehow load automatically in this situation.
This is a key non-negotiable requirement for SlugOS, and was the reason why a 
previous attempt at further modularisation of the usb and ext3-related parts of 
the SlugOS kernel was reverted just before the SlugOS 3.10 release.  The 
current effort to modularise must meet this requirement.
-- Rod




 
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