Re: Source organization for two drivers sharing coomon code

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jul 27 2007 10:17, Subbu Seetharaman 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.

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.


	Jan
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