Hi Greg, If this is so, how would one go about in making a network driver for Android and expose it's api to the superior layers?
Cheers, Mihai On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:19 PM, James SDC <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to build a Linux library and link the library (not source code) >> to the Android kernel. > > If you do that, then the library must be released under the same license > of the kernel, GPLv2. > > And the kernel will become part of the kernel itself, so you will not have > access to most things that you normally do from a library (file i/o, memory > management, etc.) > >> In addition, the APIs of my library can be >> exposed to the applications, either Java or NDK applications. > > Nope, that will not happen if your library is in the kernel, sorry. > > Why do you think you need your library in the kernel itself? > Why not just ship it as a normal library? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > -- > unsubscribe: [email protected] > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
