"If Android code was important to the mainline kernel..."
"If Android code was important to the mainline kernel..."
Posted Dec 9, 2010 10:37 UTC (Thu) by dneary (guest, #55185)In reply to: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community by cdibona
Parent article: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community
Replying to a really old comment... don't know if that's good or bad LWN etiquette.
To turn this phrase on its head, one could argue that:
If getting code upstream was important to Android developers:
Then they would expend more effort in accommodating concerns that the kernel developers have raised about the patches
No-one likes to maintain someone else's abandoned code.
I only bring this up now because of a recent announcement which reads like a regression to me: http://source.android.com/source/code-lines.html (that said, it has the advantage of clarifying expectations, which I applaud).
Cheers,
Dave Neary.