Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:30:43 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline |
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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Much of this code has other serious issues (eg, code quality or being written for out of date kernel APIs) which prevents it being merged without other work.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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