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Add a note about the (lack of) correspondence between a module's name and 

the name of the file from which it is loaded.
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/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.15 2018/05/04 00:25:26 pgoyette Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.16 2018/12/13 11:28:00 pgoyette Exp $ */
Some notes on the limitations of our current (as of 7.99.35) module
subsystem. This list was triggered by an Email exchange between
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invocations of module_class_init(), and it might be useful to have a
non-dependency mechanism to provide "IF module-A and module-B are
BOTH present, module-A needs to be initialized before module-B".
20. (Long-ago memory rises to the surface) Note that currently there is
nothing that requires a module's name to correspond in any way with
the name of file from which the module is loaded. Thus, it is
possible to attempt to access device /dev/x, discover that there is
no such device so we autoload /stand/.../x/x.kmod and initialize
the module loaded, even if the loaded module is for some other
device entirely!