From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265332AbUBANUD (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:20:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265333AbUBANUD (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:20:03 -0500 Received: from mail-08.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.40]:33463 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265332AbUBANUA (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:20:00 -0500 Message-ID: <401CFCDE.3030108@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:19:26 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henti Smith CC: "Jinu M." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux device driver using c++! References: <1118873EE1755348B4812EA29C55A9720DE151@esnmail.esntechnologies.co.in> <20040201150529.649bda55.henti@geekware.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20040201150529.649bda55.henti@geekware.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Henti Smith wrote: >On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:17:08 +0530 >"Jinu M." 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?