Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:07:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Ashish sddf <buff_boulder@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling C++ kernel module + Makefile
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ashish sddf wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am trying to port a C++ kernel module from 2.4 to
> 2.6. (It is MIT Click Modular Router).
>
>    As I understand the module building has changed in
> ver 2.6. I have got the Makefile to compile it but it
> gives me lot of warning - all dependancies problem
>
>  It appears that the kernel Makefile treats it like a
> host application and does not pass the necessary
> processing routines.
>
>   Does anyone can ideas about how to change the kernel
> makefile to compile the C++ files the same way as C
> files ?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Ashish

If somebody actually got a module, written in C++, to compile and
work on linux-2.4.nn, as you state, it works only by fiat, i.e., was
declared to work. There is no C++ runtime support in the kernel for
C++. Are you sure this is a module and not an application? Many
network processes (daemons) are applications and they don't require
any knowledge of kernel internals except what's provided by the
normal C/C++ include-files.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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