Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932094AbVIGJ6k (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:58:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932095AbVIGJ6k (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:58:40 -0400 Received: from h80ad25ab.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.171]:38887 "EHLO h80ad25ab.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932094AbVIGJ6j (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:58:39 -0400 Message-Id: <200509070958.j879w4p0017726@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: "Budde, Marco" Cc: Esben Nielsen , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kbuild & C++ In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:24 +0200." <809C13DD6142E74ABE20C65B11A2439809C4BE@www.telos.de> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <809C13DD6142E74ABE20C65B11A2439809C4BE@www.telos.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1126087078_3088P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:57:58 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1194 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1126087078_3088P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:24 +0200, "Budde, Marco" said: > E.g. in my case the Windows source code has got more than 10 MB. > Nobody will convert such an amount of code from C++ to C. > This would take years. Do you have any *serious* intent to drop 10 *megabytes* worth of driver into the kernel??? (Hint - *everything* in drivers/net/wireless *totals* to only 2.7M). A Linux device driver isn't the same thing as a Windows device driver - much of a Windows driver is considered "userspace" on Linux, and you're free to do that in C++ if you want. --==_Exmh_1126087078_3088P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDHrmmcC3lWbTT17ARAn+zAJ9unG7oiTOr7kBdJhPpNEIR/7BGIACgk54B Bcs7zgdmlcuWAjhQHiPeTeo= =NNUz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1126087078_3088P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/