Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:59:30 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: C++ pushback |
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>> I don't recall anyone asking you to so much as lift a finger. Feel free to >> invest your effort where you feel it will do the most good, and try not to >> criticize others for doing the same with their own resources. > >As far as they intend to stay away from the main kernel tree, I don't >critize anybody. But for example renaming otherwise logically named structure >members (`class' etc.) just for C++ compatibility _IS_ wasting time of >other people, who need to remember new names, review the patch and so on. > That said, VMware does use C++ in its kernel modules at one point. So, it is possible to some degree with enough effort. Of the C++ kernel module writer, that is!
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