On 21/05/12 18:27, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
hi,
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org mailto:andy.green@linaro.org> wrote:
So I just wanted to check first with folks to make sure there are no objections to merging in the -compat changes, and that the timing of merging in these changes isn't problematic (I can happily hold off till this months release is done, so we don't risk any last minute gotchas). The only worry I can see is that now even vanilla versions of LT kernels are basing off llct that includes Androidizaton, even vanilla will have possibly invasive wakelock code. It might be good to briefly audit the changes to confirm they don't appear if CONFIG_ANDROID is off. Google might not take much care about that case but I think it might be important for us.like Andy, I am a bit concerned that we merge the android stuff into the linaro-core and that we get android candies in 'vanilla' kernel. can't we (shouldn't we) have -android on top of -core and pull -android only into 'android' kernel? it's true that for most things, -android is not impacting a 'vanilla' kernel, but clearly from the outside (community *and* customers) a kernel 'tainted' with Android is not a 'vanilla' kernel anymore...
I really like the linux-core tree by the way, and the fact that we get Linaro technologies pre-integrated is helping us clearly. I think if we only add -android as a branch on top of -core, then that should be enough.
Then Andy (or other LT) would pull -core into their -vanilla, and pull -android branch into the LT androidized kernel!
Right that is how it used to be until recently. But to be fair to platform guys, recently mainline did bring a lot of Android stuff back into vanilla staging with intention to make it a permanent part of vanilla.
The problem is they were the "easy bits" of Androidization that would stay in the staging box.
The Androidization in llct and this new tranche is more invasive to the general tree. Despite I am not on John's whitelist of People Whose Opinions Matter for that subject, maybe we should take some care to either audit what we're adding to vanilla or as Nicolas is suggesting separate it out again.
-Andy