Re: missing build functionality?

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 16:10:28 EST


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:33:39 PST, Bruce Korb said:

> Anyway, I do not see an obvious way to construct an object archive library
> that I wish to use for multiple drivers. There are two problems. This:
>
> > ifeq ($(ARCH),ia64)
> > CFLAGS_KERNEL =
> > endif
>
> because I am making the archive for a loadable driver.

The usual solution for 2 modules that share an archive would be to create
*three* modules driver-a, driver-b, and driver-core - and then have the
appropriate depmod magic so a 'modprobe driver-a' does an insmode driver-core,
as does a 'modprobe driver-b'.

Otherwise, you're just loading the entire library into memory twice,
once for each driver...

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