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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> I was going to say some fairly small number. And then I remembered that
> "the Linux kernel" actually includes every Linux device driver ever
> written, for every architecture, ever. That alone means it must be
> absolutely massive. (And then there's support for every file system ever
> implemented, every network protocol ever implemented, every kind of
> block device, an entire route and firewall subsystem...)
Most device drivers are loaded as modules rather than being hard-coded
into the kernel.
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- Warp
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