Re: Can driver be used as synonym for module

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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:13:53PM -0400, Hong Hsu wrote:

> And I would like long answer.
> >
> >The short answer is that a driver is a driver and a module is a module.
> >A driver could be built as a module. A module is just a chink of kernel
> >code that can be loaded (and usually unloaded) at runtime.  A driver is
> >usually a chunk of code that controls a physical device such as a disk
> >driver.

The long answer is pretty much the same.

regards
john
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