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Kernel+Userland: Remove loadable kernel moduless

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
parent b92871f7ef
commit 04ba31b8c5
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@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ set(KERNEL_SOURCES
Syscalls/mkdir.cpp
Syscalls/mknod.cpp
Syscalls/mmap.cpp
Syscalls/module.cpp
Syscalls/mount.cpp
Syscalls/open.cpp
Syscalls/perf_event.cpp
@ -528,4 +527,3 @@ serenity_install_headers(Kernel)
serenity_install_sources(Kernel)
add_subdirectory(Prekernel)
add_subdirectory(Modules)