On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Could someone tell me what is the preferred method of having two drivers
> communicate with each other? I know a driver can send an ioctl to another
> driver, but since both drivers exist in kernel space, and the kernel is
> monolithic, I figured that direct calls from one driver to another is not only
> possible but common.
> Also, is it possible for one driver to load another driver? Would that require
> kerneld, or is there a more direct procedure?
Unfortunately this question is a bit too high level...
You can certain have one driver load another via modprobe (grep for
CONFIG_KMOD), but if both drivers will be required, module dependencies
might simply pull in one of the drivers automatically.
For driver<->driver communication, it is totally dependent on what you
need to communicate. It could be something as simple as a small, shared
module protected by a spinlock, or something more complex. Really task
dependent..
Jeff
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