Re: RFC: separate 3dfx_linux module

From: Coleman Kane <cokane_at_cokane.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:56:11 -0500
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:16:33AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
> >
> >
> >My impression was more that the current config format would stay the
> >same, but there'd be separate modules (rather than incorporating it all
> >into tdfx.ko):
> >tdfx.ko
> >tdfx_linux.ko
> >
> >Much like how wlan.ko and wlan_*.ko operate?
> >
> 
> Well, we are talking about different things here, I think.  I absolutely
> agree with having separate .ko files, regardless of what kernel options
> or devices are specified.  What I'm wondering about is when building the
> tdfx driver into the kernel, does the tdfx-linux functionality come in
> via an 'option' or a 'device'.  If it's an 'option', does that mean that
> you can load the tdfx_linux.ko module into a kernel that has the tdfx
> device included?

I see where you're going with this. As I recall, this was a hinderance
back when I first wrote the driver (resulting in the default of
TDFX_LINUX being defined in the kmod). I don't know these days, if
the functionality can be divided between two kmods then I would hope
one could be loaded into the kernel statically and one via kmod.

> 
> Scott
> 
Received on Mon Feb 27 2006 - 23:52:26 UTC

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