Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 17:33:47 EST


> Ah, but if you make changes to the android userspace that aren't
> accepted upstream by the core android development team, you'll be
> forking the android userspace. And given that they are continuing to

Oh so forking the kernel is fine but forking userspace is silly. Quaint

> So it's not clear they will be that interested in using a baseline
> from a newer kernel version. Especially if the changes you propose
> making to your forked version of the Android userspace don't contain
> the latest and greatest user-visible features....

Who cares ?

I don't remember IBM and Dell being terribly interested in Linux when it
started but that wasn't a reason not to do it

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