Devs Discuss Android's Possible Readmission To Linux Kernel

MonsterTrimble writes "At the Linux Collaboration Summit, Google and Linux Kernel Developers are meeting to discuss the issues surrounding the Android fork and how it can be re-admitted to the mainline kernel. From the article: 'James Bottomley, Linux SCSI subsystem maintainer and Novell distinguished engineer, said during the kernel panel that forks are prevalent in embedded systems where companies use the fork once, then "throw it away. Google is not the first to have done something like this by far, just the one that's made the most publicity. Hopefully the function of this collaboration summit is that there is some collaboration over the next two days and we might actually solve it."'"

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Re:Backwards?

[Daniel Phillips]

Why not standardize on an ABI for the minor version number? 2.6 versus 2.8 for example.

There is no 2.8 on the horizon, the next number over to the right has become the de facto minor version number, and the module ABI is stable within each of those releases. Clearly, you are not involved in actual kernel development, but thanks for playing.