hi Anupam, u've answered my question with another question of urs...who's answer i don't know :P!! what i meant was that are there any code level changes that would be required to be done in my driver to make it work as a built-in driver??? but i guess i have got the my answer now. thanks! -mandeep On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:23, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:30:47 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu > <mandeep_sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hi list, > > > > just a small Q. what are the changes required for making a modular > > driver a built-in one??? Are the entry/exit points of a module > > ([init/cleanup]_module) called for a built-in one too? I think the > > answer wud be no....but i'm not too sure. What fxn.s are called > > for initialization for a built-in driver? > how is a non-trivial initialization/cleanup going to happen if your > init/exit function is not called ? > > kind regards > anupam > > > > > TIA, > > -mandeep -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/