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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>
Cc: Janakiram Sistla <janakiram.sistla@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:12:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101106181202.GA6927@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=UxhRdcDaoKaYVWhPkp_e-uLF4=zhXs7gutkgx@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:25:31PM -0700, Janakiram Sistla wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > ? ? ? I was wondering what the long term implications of android development being forked from the linux mainline are?
> >
> > Android support was removed from 2.6.33 onwards, and development still continues for 2.6.35, by reverting the commit that deleted android from the mainline.
> >
> > One could argue that android gave linux a solid boost widespread adoption for mobile embedded devices, and its use would continue to grow exponentially with time, more than plain vanilla linux for embedded devices.
> >
> > Was removing android from the linux kernel mainline a mistake, in retrospect?

Are you willing to maintain the android kernel code in the mainline
kernel tree?  If so, I will be glad to add it back in, but as no one was
willing to do the work, it was removed.  It's as simple as that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-30 18:18 Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline Elvis Dowson
2010-11-02 21:25 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-06 18:12   ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-06 19:22     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-06 19:40       ` Anca Emanuel
2010-11-06 23:40         ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-06 23:52           ` david
2010-11-07  0:03             ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-07  0:13               ` Alan Cox
2010-11-07  0:20                 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-09 16:30                 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-07  0:20               ` david
2010-11-10 13:54               ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 20:38                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-11 14:33                   ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-06 23:42         ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-06 23:09       ` Greg KH
2010-11-07  0:24         ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-07  8:38     ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-07 11:44       ` Anca Emanuel
2010-11-07 15:57         ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 20:06           ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-07 21:31             ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 21:46               ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-07 21:47                 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09 18:10             ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 18:24               ` Greg KH
2010-11-09 18:37                 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 18:42                   ` david
2010-11-09 18:52                     ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 20:55                       ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-09 22:32                         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-10  0:35                           ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-10  9:53                             ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-10 20:55                             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-07 21:44           ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-07 21:59             ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 23:09               ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-08  1:42                 ` Greg KH
2010-11-08  2:22                   ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09 13:27                 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-11  0:33               ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11  0:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12  3:15                   ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-12 10:26                     ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-11  0:47                 ` Greg KH
2010-11-11 11:21                   ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-12  3:17                     ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11 11:18                 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-09 13:27             ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-09 13:51               ` [OpenWrt-Devel] " Wolfgang Spraul
2010-11-13  3:06             ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-15 17:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16  6:23               ` Brian Swetland
2010-11-16  7:02                 ` Anca Emanuel

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