30 May 2024 11:17:03 Ralph Ronnquist via Dng <dng@???>:

> The more targeted approach is to use a hotplugger to traverse the /sys
> tree and (re)act upon the available kernel uevents by loading the
> associated modules. In fact right now I'm gettting help from Aitor to
> make a minimalistic vdevd (not udevd) variant to serve as such module
> loading hotplugger (for use in the installer preamble).

Likely not much help but OpenBSD has static dev files and their hotplugd listens to events from the kernel on /dev/hotplug

https://man.openbsd.org/hotplugd