Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:32:25 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline |
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> Ah, but if you make changes to the android userspace that aren't > accepted upstream by the core android development team, you'll be > forking the android userspace. And given that they are continuing to
Oh so forking the kernel is fine but forking userspace is silly. Quaint
> So it's not clear they will be that interested in using a baseline > from a newer kernel version. Especially if the changes you propose > making to your forked version of the Android userspace don't contain > the latest and greatest user-visible features....
Who cares ?
I don't remember IBM and Dell being terribly interested in Linux when it started but that wasn't a reason not to do it
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