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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Henti Smith <henti@geekware.co.za>
Cc: "Jinu M." <jinum@esntechnologies.co.in>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux device driver using c++!
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:19:26 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <401CFCDE.3030108@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040201150529.649bda55.henti@geekware.co.za>



Henti Smith wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:17:08 +0530
>"Jinu M." <jinum@esntechnologies.co.in> wrote:
>
>
>>I am new to Linux based device driver development.
>>I wanted to know if it is possible to write a Linux device driver
>>(kernel loadable module) using C++.
>>
>
>It's possible, but like having sex with a cactus
>
>very painful,
>very silly, 
>very unsatisfactory 
>
>and no sane person would touch the cactus afterwards ;P 
>
>

Oh yeah and if you trim off the spikes you might as well
just do it with C^Hyour hand, right?

Why haven't I ever thought of this wonderful analogy before?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-01 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-01 12:47 Linux device driver using c++! Jinu M.
2004-02-01 13:00 ` Julien Rebetez
2004-02-01 13:02 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-01 13:05 ` Henti Smith
2004-02-01 13:19   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-02-01 17:58 ` Rafael Pereira

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