From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Subbu Seetharaman" <subbus@serverengines.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Source organization for two drivers sharing coomon code
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:35:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070727183558.56c07db4@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070727171729.f3ff0878@mailhost.serverengines.com>
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:17:29 -0700
"Subbu Seetharaman" <subbus@serverengines.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 17:17 Subbu Seetharaman
2007-07-27 17:35 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-07-27 19:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-27 19:12 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-27 19:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-28 2:42 Subbu Seetharaman
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