On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:33:47AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > >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... > > So this re-opens the discussion we've been having since at least > last Oct in moving to a consolidated kernel. > > Since Android upstreaming is an very active goal of Linaro, I think > there's strong technical value in putting the Android patches in > along with all the other Linaro trees, as it allows us to work out > any sort of incompatibilities or issues, so we can resolve them > prior to being pushed upstream.
I'm quite +1 on what John is saying. There was a time when there was great uncertainty about the future of the Android patches, but since Linus' comment last year it's become dead certain that the functionality /will/ be merged upstream. We can pave the way by getting any integration issues sorted out early -- similarly to what we do for practically everything else in linux-linaro. -- Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP Brazil (GMT-3) | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | [+1] 612 216 4935 Linaro.org: Open Source Software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
