On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Sunny Aujla <[email protected]>wrote:
> Drivers written for Android hardware platforms, can not get merged into the > main kernel tree because they have dependencies on code that only lives in > Google's kernel tree, causing it to fail to build in the kernel tree. > Because of this, Google has now prevented a large chunk of hardware drivers > and platform code from ever getting merged into the main kernel tree. > I'm not going to get into a huge discussion on this, but Google engineers spent a very large amount of time rewriting code 5 or 6 times and addressing a huge number of questions and requests to get this into the mainline kernel. Ultimately, however, the mainline maintainers let this drag out and never accepted the patches. It is pretty out there to lay the blame for the current situation all on Google's feet. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
