On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:33:47AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
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...
So this re-opens the discussion we've been having since at least last Oct in moving to a consolidated kernel.
Since Android upstreaming is an very active goal of Linaro, I think there's strong technical value in putting the Android patches in along with all the other Linaro trees, as it allows us to work out any sort of incompatibilities or issues, so we can resolve them prior to being pushed upstream.
I'm quite +1 on what John is saying. There was a time when there was great uncertainty about the future of the Android patches, but since Linus' comment last year it's become dead certain that the functionality /will/ be merged upstream. We can pave the way by getting any integration issues sorted out early -- similarly to what we do for practically everything else in linux-linaro.