hi,
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Andy Green 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!
cheers,
nico