In message <1046783010.328.73.camel at muse> you wrote: > > I understand that reason, and i'm not certain about the usefulness of > modules in embedded systems.
They are _very_ useful during development. They may also be useful to make driver initialization and/or operation controllable by application code. In general you are right: statically linking the required drivers is usually a better approach. > Anyway, my original purpose was to develop the driver as a module, and > afterwards insert it into the kernel. I have just done it adding the > EXPORT_SYMBOL macro to commproc.c and listing it in export-objs in > arch/ppc/8xx_io/Makefile. Right, isn't it? Yes, this is all that is needed. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code." - Karl Lehenbauer ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
