Re: Source organization for two drivers sharing coomon code

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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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