Wow, this is an amazingly bad idea. I can understand why it was marked Declined.
Android is a sandboxed operating system. By design, one application cannot access files or resources associated with any other application. See http://source.android.com/tech/security/index.html#linux-security , for example. Allowing the installation of kernel modules completely bypasses these protections, reducing not only the security of the system, but also the stability and reliability. Android has no desire to repeat the mistakes of previous desktop operating systems. If kernel modules are a requirement for you, you are free to create a customized version of Android. -- Nick On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Android is quickly becoming a full-blown O.S, a desktop replacement, > and it needs more low-level abilities to go way beyond one-trick-pony > apps. > > Today Android lacks of full-scale kernel framework, which sort-of > limit what can be done with Android. Namely - Android lacks the > ability to write system drivers a.k.a kernel modules. > > I have described the problem in detail. > > I would like to hear some comments on Wish #37260. > http://code.google.com/p/**android/issues/detail?id=37260<http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=37260> > > Some Android developers disagree that there must be a way for kernel > modules to exist on Android, citing security issues, but the upside of > kernel modules is a *HUGE* one, just like going from HTML-only-apps to > native apps. > I ask Google to reconsider that decision. I ask community to comment on it. > > Thanks in advance, > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Security Discussions" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-security-discuss/-/0liqRAdlvmIJ. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en. > -- Nick Kralevich | Android Security | [email protected] | 650.214.4037 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
