Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:39:18 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: RFC: /proc/module namespace |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > My point is that module != driver. A module is something that may be > > compiled separately from the kernel. > > "may" is the key word. A driver can be compiled separately from the > kernel too, of course, making a driver and module the same thing.
No, you still misunderstand. A driver is a driver, a module is a module. Some drivers happen to be modules and most modules happen to be drivers. But they're _different concepts_. A driver can also be several modules or a module can contain several drivers. Things can be modules that aren't drivers - for instance, I once wrote a module that was a filesystem image.
And I still maintain that simplified register functions are needed at the top level of proc. It's a mess.
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