On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:34:07AM -0400, Dan Erickson wrote: > > Ok, thanks for clearing up my thinking on that guys. > > Now my next question would be.... what happens if you do compile directly > into the kernel? How does the kenrel know the drivers entry point? My best > guess would be that it just uses the module_init() for the entry point > even though you arnt compiling the driver as a module. Is this correct? Please read the include/linux/init.h file, which explains all of this. greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/