Re: New snapshot of modutils

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:33:24 +1100

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Bjorn Ekwall writes:
> Please note that the depmod and modprobe utilities are back to C++.
> This is a result of a discussion in linux-kernel last week, and
> this is the way it has to be, in consideration of all involved.

Arghh! Please, no! It was a disaster the last that happened. I saw at
least some of the discussion you referred to, but I didn't see a
consensus of why C++ was needed. We've been using C-based modutils for
years now. What is so broken that it requires C++?

Regards,

Richard....

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