On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:17:29 -0700
"Subbu Seetharaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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