On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:31:29PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:25:25AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 02:26:34PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: Really? Like what? Last I looked it's only about 300 or so patches. Something like less than .5% of the normal SoC backport size for any ARM system recently. There were some numbers published a few months ago about the real count, I can dig them up if you are curious.
Really.
The Android tree is making non-trivial modifications adding new features in core bits of the kernel like the scheduler - that's got an impact which will have follow on validation costs if it's not introduced early on in the process.
Ah crap, I forgot all about the scheduler mess. Sorry about that, I've been focusing on device-specific stuff too much (nothing I much care lives outside of drivers/...)
So you are right, for some types of devices, the andoid-common tree isn't the best idea. However, the validation "costs" better be starting all over based on the intrusiveness of these patches, they are non-trivial :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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