I don't see what the monolithic kernel has to do with it. Kernel modules are dynamically have been loadable. Yes, they run in kernel mode, and yes their versi

I don't see what the monolithic kernel has to do with it. Kernel modules are dynamically have been loadable. Yes, they run in kernel mode, and yes their version tightly bound to the running kernel -- but how is that a problem for abstracting of varying hardware?