RE: kbuild & C++

[Budde, Marco]

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


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