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Kernel+Userland: Remove loadable kernel moduless

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These interfaces are broken for about 9 months, maybe longer than that.
At this point, this is just a dead code nobody tests or tries to use, so
let's remove it instead of keeping a stale code just for the sake of
keeping it and hoping someone will fix it.

To better justify this, I read that OpenBSD removed loadable kernel
modules in 5.7 release (2014), mainly for the same reason we do -
nobody used it so they had no good reason to maintain it.
Still, OpenBSD had LKMs being effectively working, which is not the
current state in our project for a long time.
An arguably better approach to minimize the Kernel image size is to
allow dropping drivers and features while compiling a new image.
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Liav A 2021-09-11 15:57:41 +03:00 • committed by Andreas Kling
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## Name
modload - load a kernel module
## Synopsis
```**sh
$ modload <path>
```
## Description
Load a kernel module specified by *path*.
## Examples
```sh
$ modload /mod/TestModule.o
```
## See also
* [`modunload`(1)](modunload.md)
* [`module_load`(2)](../man2/module_load.md)
* [`kernel_modules`(7)](../man7/kernel_modules.md)

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## Name
modunload - unload a kernel module
## Synopsis
```**sh
$ modunload <name>
```
## Description
Unload a kernel module specified by *name*.
## Examples
```sh
$ modunload TestModule
```
## See also
* [`modload`(8)](modload.md)
* [`module_unload`(2)](../man2/module_unload.md)
* [`kernel_modules`(7)](../man7/kernel_modules.md)