very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

[Bill Nottingham]

Will Woods (wwoods at redhat.com) said: 
> IIRC one of the proposed solutions was to have 'modprobed' - a modprobe 
> daemon which would read modules.deps at system startup and handle all 
> subsequent modprobe requests from udev etc.

Kay started poking at integrating modprobe directly into udev with the
idea of solving some of this... IIRC it didn't help.

Bill