Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750757AbVIGKVI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:21:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751157AbVIGKVH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:21:07 -0400 Received: from dizz-a.telos.de ([212.63.141.211]:7048 "EHLO mail.telos.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbVIGKVH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:21:07 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: kbuild & C++ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:17:10 +0200 Message-ID: <809C13DD6142E74ABE20C65B11A2439809C4BF@www.telos.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: kbuild & C++ Thread-Index: AcWzkrg+Q41D0zJPSvyl7h3MTl330wAAgHsg From: "Budde, Marco" To: Cc: X-telosmf: done Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 28 Hi, > 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). no, I don't. No every module has to go into the standard kernel :-). > 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. Well, it is not the first driver I am writing for Linux. So yes, I do know, what is part of a Linux driver and what is not. cu, Marco - 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/