Re: From: Carlos Mart??n <carlos@cmartin.tk>

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

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.


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