> It is possible to fit all the driver initialization & probing code in a
> separate ELF section that can be discarded after kernel initializations ?
>
> This code, after the kernel initialization, is unused, why don't free it ?
>
> Yes! We need to modify all driver initialization code, but I think this
> solution can be able to free 1/5 or 1/6 of the kernel size, specialy in
> a big kernel.
This is already in the sparc port (available on vger.rutgers.edu). So
it should be part of 2.1 soon.
-Andi