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Expand discussion a bit, and provide ppp as an example way to do things.

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/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.4 2016/08/05 04:21:01 pgoyette Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: TODO.modules,v 1.5 2016/08/06 00:30:57 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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There are ways around this (such as, having the parent
module's initialization command recursively call the module
load code), but they're gross hacks.
load code), but they're often gross hacks.
Another alternative (which is used by ppp) is to provide a
"registration" mechanism for the "child" modules, and then when
the need for a specific child module is encountered, use
module_autoload() to load the child module. Of course, this
requires that the parent module know about all potentially
loadable children.
2. Currently, config(1) has no way to "no define" drivers