Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog)

> Moreover, Dave Burke specifies: "The other thing is, generally, we don't change the kernel with an update. No one really does that in the industry". Probably the work of the kernel maintainers and developers is not industry-worth, in his eyes.

The development work is worth a massive, massive lot and valued as much. The expensive, tedious and time-consuming QA and especially non-regression work is nowhere near enough what's required for the marketplace. It's just the way things are because we live a world of finite resources. How could every validation suite be run on every Linux device under the sun on every kernel version before it gets released?

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