Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b6).

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:02:28AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> Hmm, looking through your email from July 18th, I note three main
> objections that have not been addressed:
> 
> 	o Build process -- (three module interface for the ISPs), I
> 	  personally like the idea of a shared library module used
> 	  between the different ISP drivers.  Many others have voiced
> 	  their frustrations with the single driver-binary for each
> 	  ISP type that the directive from management is to have a
> 	  single binary for all *future* products including the 
> 	  ISP23xx (ISP2300/ISP2310/ISP2312/ISP2322) chips.
> 
> 	  That unfortunately leaves ISP2100 and ISP2200 on the
> 	  periphery of development efforts.

I wouldn't see a problem with having a structure like this:

ql2100.c
ql2200.c
ql23xx.c
qllib.c

and linking in whichever files are selected.  But you definitely only want
to build qllib.c once.

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