I don't see any anger, just bluntness. Mathew makes a number of good points.
Many of the Android kernel patches are not of any benefit to the larger linux community and perhaps more effort should have been made (be made?) to reuse and refine existing linux implementations for kernel features added for android and get them into upstream Linux. --mgross >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:android- >[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Swetland >Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 12:04 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [android-kernel] Re: (Opinion) Android has some apparently messy >kernel patches > > >[kapare <[email protected]>] >> >> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/100221.html > >I'm a bit confused as to all the anger in the blog post and >comments -- the source is out there now and developer devices >are available. If somebody feels that we've done everything >terribly wrong, we're interested in suggestions as to how things >could be improved (patches are welcome!) or people can just take >the code and run with it. > >For our part, we publish our kernel work, we do try to get stuff >reviewed and pushed upstream (some of the msm7k support is now in >mainline, for example), and we'll continue to do so. > >Brian > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
