Raffaele Recalcati a écrit :

Looking at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=android
my idea seems to be ... not very good at all !!
What do you think?
I'm not a kernel mainline developer so I don't understand the real meaning.

Basically, Android is a so hacked-up version of Linux it is hard to maintain. Google has done some drivers and refused to maintain them or
make them follow upstream kernel so devs get frustrated, which is legitimate imho.

Also, they have modified so many things in Linux (kernel + legacy runtime environment), I'm surprised this OS received such a fame.

Ben