On 21/05/12 18:27, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
hi,
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Andy Green <andy.gr...@linaro.org
<mailto:andy.gr...@linaro.org>> wrote:
So I just wanted to check first with folks to make sure there are no
objections to merging in the -compat changes, and that the timing of
merging in these changes isn't problematic (I can happily hold
off till
this months release is done, so we don't risk any last minute
gotchas).
The only worry I can see is that now even vanilla versions of LT
kernels are basing off llct that includes Androidizaton, even
vanilla will have possibly invasive wakelock code.
It might be good to briefly audit the changes to confirm they don't
appear if CONFIG_ANDROID is off. Google might not take much care
about that case but I think it might be important for us.
like Andy, I am a bit concerned that we merge the android stuff into the
linaro-core and that we get android candies in 'vanilla' kernel. can't
we (shouldn't we) have -android on top of -core and pull -android only
into 'android' kernel? it's true that for most things, -android is not
impacting a 'vanilla' kernel, but clearly from the outside (community
*and* customers) a kernel 'tainted' with Android is not a 'vanilla'
kernel anymore...
I really like the linux-core tree by the way, and the fact that we get
Linaro technologies pre-integrated is helping us clearly. I think if we
only add -android as a branch on top of -core, then that should be enough.
Then Andy (or other LT) would pull -core into their -vanilla, and pull
-android branch into the LT androidized kernel!
Right that is how it used to be until recently. But to be fair to
platform guys, recently mainline did bring a lot of Android stuff back
into vanilla staging with intention to make it a permanent part of vanilla.
The problem is they were the "easy bits" of Androidization that would
stay in the staging box.
The Androidization in llct and this new tranche is more invasive to the
general tree. Despite I am not on John's whitelist of People Whose
Opinions Matter for that subject, maybe we should take some care to
either audit what we're adding to vanilla or as Nicolas is suggesting
separate it out again.
-Andy
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