Re: C++ pushback

Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-25T08:59:35Z

>> 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!

Jan Engelhardt
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