emu won't work in kernel?

["Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>]

    This might be obvious to everyone else, but I just rolled a custom kernel,
and since I almost always have music going, I built the emu module (SB Live!)
into the kernel. Sound wouldn't work, as the open on /dev/dsp would come back
with "no such device". As soon as I went back to loading it as a module,
everything worked again. 

    Any reason why?

    Thanks,

    Mike