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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707272131270.16356@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:34:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
cc: Subbu Seetharaman <subbus@...verengines.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Source organization for two drivers sharing coomon code
On Jul 27 2007 13:12, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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?
Perhaps drivers/message - well I can't answer that exactly.
As far as the output object files are concerned, it is not relevant,
since they will be autoloaded anyway :)
Jan
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