Modular Kernel: Difference between revisions

* It may looselose stability. If there is a module that does something bad, the kernel can crash, as modules should have full permissions.

* ...and therefore security is compromised. A module can do anything, so one could easily write an evil module to crash things. (Some OS'sOSs only allow modules to be loaded by the root user).)

* Coding can be more difficult, as the module cannot reference kernel procedures without Kernelkernel Symbolssymbols.