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Bundled doesn't mean statically linked, it would be plain dumb if not impossible to add every driver out there into the kernel image; nowadays about everything is dynamically loaded so it doesn't impact the kernel size and doesn't waste memory or CPU cycles unless loaded, which happens only when necessary (eg when a USB device is inserted).



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