On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:17:29 -0700
"Subbu Seetharaman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> What is the recommended way for two drivers to share common code ?
> Our device has two PCI functions and hence two drivers - NIC and
> SCSI driver. The source code for these dirvers will fit under
> drivers/net and drivers/scsi. But both drivers share some common
> code. If possible, I would like to avoid duplicating the common
> code under the two driver directories. Is there any recommened
> way to organize such common code ? Thanks.
What sort of code is shared - historically the cases we have had in the
driver space have mostly been common message passing interfaces to
co-processor type boards (eg I2O or MPT Fusion) and those have lived
under drivers/message/type/...
I don't think there is any hard rule here.
Alan
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