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."

Comments

Re:Oh, no.

[Anonymous Coward]

The best way to describe many of the Android changes to Linux is "utter braindamage"

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.

the network security extensions have "hardcoded group and user IDs"

Which may make sense for embedded devices?

Re:Oh, no.

[FlyingGuy]

No it is most assuredly not! Google does not give a rats ass about the cruft they kluge in as long is makes Android look superior to iOS which it is most certainly not.