Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:13:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> I've always wondered that but never seen a good answer from the Android
> people as to why they don't push the stuff without the wakelock bits and
> just keep "add wakelock" patches for those as they do for the core kernel
> stuff they hack about.

Much of this code has other serious issues (eg, code quality or being
written for out of date kernel APIs) which prevents it being merged
without other work.

There are also some other areas where Android introduced random API
variance, though none of them terribly important.
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