linux-kernel - Re: Source organization for two drivers sharing coomon code

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Message-ID: <46AA4395.3050907@nortel.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:12:21 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	Subbu Seetharaman <subbus@...verengines.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Source organization for two drivers sharing coomon code

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 27 2007 10:17, Subbu Seetharaman wrote:
> 
>>What is the recommended way for two drivers to share common code ?
>><snip>...The source code for these dirvers will fit under 
>>drivers/net and drivers/scsi.  But both drivers share some common 
>>code.

> You could create (in total) three modules, e.g. my-common.ko,
> my-net.ko and my-scsi.ko, of which the latter two use functions from the first.

Where would the common code live, in such a case?  Would you just pick 
one of the two locations at random, or put it in drivers/misc or maybe lib?

Chris
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