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.
Subbu
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You could create (in total) three modules, e.g. my-common.ko,

my-net.ko and my-scsi.ko, of which the latter two use functions from the first.
	Jan

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Where would the common code live, in such a case?  Would you just pick

one of the two locations at random, or put it in drivers/misc or maybe lib?
Chris

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Perhaps drivers/message - well I can't answer that exactly.
As far as the output object files are concerned, it is not relevant,

since they will be autoloaded anyway :)
	Jan

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:17:29 -0700
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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