> with a bit of C++ (2%) That sounded strange to me, since the dislike of C++ within the Linux kernel is well-known, so I took a quick look. All uses I found w

> with a bit of C++ (2%) That sounded strange to me, since the dislike of C++ within the Linux kernel is well-known, so I took a quick look. All uses I found were on user space tools, not in the kernel itself, and all of them (except for a "check if this compiles" test file) are in C++ because they have to call into libraries with a C++-only API (LLVM and Qt).