On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:03:58PM +0100, Carlos Mart?n wrote: > > The important bit is that you need the pointers with the above module > > spit, because you can't call usb- or pci-specific routines from > > acx-common.ko > > Yes, I realise that (unless you export them, but I don't think we want that).
even that wouldn't work with current module because the usb and pci modules call into the common code and thus we'd have recursive module depency. > This approach is probably better even if the driver is unified. Pointer > dereferences are cheaper than branches/jumping, aren't they? It shouldn't matter these days as cpus have nice branch prediction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html