M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I have the following problem:
: module A
: int x;
:
: module B
: extern int x;
:
: Module A is loaded, module B can't be loaded cause of unknow 'x'.
: What should I do to make x global?
Better to make module B depend on module A. Making it global is
generally a bad idea.
in module A:
MODULE_VERSION(A, 1);
In module B:
MODULE_DEPEND(B, A, 1, 1, 1);
Module dependence is not the goal.
Warner
: PS. I am working on porting irda support for USB devices from NetBSD.
: The current model consists of two layers hw and sw. hw is the usb device
: driver. sw is some software layer the same for all device and it is a
: child on top of hw 'bus'. To make this working I need to add
: DRIVER_MODULE for each 'bus'. To make sw independent from the
: bus I need to export _driver and _class structures and put DRIVER_MODULE
: in 'bus' code instead of 'child'.
Are you sure that you need to do this? I'm pretty sure that you can
create a base class irdabus and then derive all the hw modules that
implement irdabus from than and all the children will automatically
probe. No need to export the driver/class structures.
I have a bit reversed case. In common case we have a driver for "bus"
with many
consumers. And we have children that declares itself via DRIVER_MODULE.
If child could work on several buses it declares itself several times
one for each
bus. In my case I have several drivers that could be treated as bus
driver for the
same child:
-----------USB------------
| | |
ustir uirda smth_else
\ | /
---------irframe--------
Imagine, if the network interface was implemented as a child of every
network
adapter. This is the same. In common case I'll put DRIVER_MODULE in a child
for each bus and recompile after adding a new one. In this case I do no
want to
recompile the child for every new "bus" since child do not depend on
such "bus"
- it is the same for all. So we may call this a pseudo-device with
unknown list
of buses. I know, I could implement this other way, but I just want to
play with
newbus a bit and the original NetBSD driver was implemented this way.
rik
Warner
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