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Project To Mainline Android Kernel Changes Formed
ghostoftiber writes "From the article: 'Tim Bird, a Sony engineering veteran and the chair of the Architecture Group of the Linux Foundation's CE Workgroup, has announced a new concerted effort to get Android's changes to the Linux kernel back into the mainline Linux kernel tree.' Android has been using Linux 2.6.x for its devices since its release, with patches from Google. To date they haven't been merged back into the kernel mainline but existed on kernel.org. Some of the features such as wakelocks would help with Linux tablet projects, but other features aren't fully realized and support remains spotty. The radio interface layer ... still exists as an ATI/Nvidia-esque shim loader scheme with modem 'drivers' being nothing more than ihex files loaded by open code."
It's a loosing battle, now.
Linux is already so retarded that I doubt anybody will notice. We've long reached the stage where there's far too much stuff in the mainline kernel. Every other option is now "WTF is this?" -- where I once understood every single configuration option.
Linus, you don't have to post as an AC.
Just be mindful about sharing needles while mainlining. Last thing linux needs is to get a virus.
(I'll get my coat...)