Quotes of the week

We're beyond the point where any additional kernel complexity should be considered a regression.

It would be nice if kernel developers understood that GFP_KERNEL is strongly preferred and that they should put in effort to use it. But there's a strong tendency for people to get themselves into a sticky corner then take the easy way out, resulting in less robust code. Maybe calling the function alloc_percpu_i_really_suck() would convey the hint.

But hey, the development kernels are still way more interesting than some boring stable kernel. New and exciting features, and you can feel like you're living at the edge rather than puttering around with your grandmothers OS. So pthhththt at you, Greg.

Weighing all that up, I don't think it is useful to set our goal on "getting Android to use a mainline kernel" - that isn't going to happen. Rather we should focus primarily on "making it *possible* to run android user-space on mainline".