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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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@ -393,8 +393,6 @@ public:
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$getrandom(Userspace<void*>, size_t, unsigned int);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$getkeymap(Userspace<const Syscall::SC_getkeymap_params*>);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$setkeymap(Userspace<const Syscall::SC_setkeymap_params*>);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$module_load(Userspace<const char*> path, size_t path_length);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$module_unload(Userspace<const char*> name, size_t name_length);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$profiling_enable(pid_t, u64);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$profiling_disable(pid_t);
KResultOr<FlatPtr> sys$profiling_free_buffer(pid_t);