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No C++ Drivers, Any More

Posted May 15, 2003 17:14 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: Driver porting: Devices and attributes

This is a clever and sneaky way to ensure that no drivers written in C++ can be added on, or even ported from 2.4. It was possible, before.

Shame on somebody.

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Posted May 19, 2006 21:17 UTC (Fri) by flatfive (guest, #37844) [Link]

What are the merits of supporting drivers written in C++?