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Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
From: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>
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On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:42 PM, david@lang.hm wrote:

> you can modify them, but unless those modifications get used, what good are they?

It would at least help us get android into mainline, and allow hand-set manufacturers to 
baseline from a newer kernel version, and prevent the fork. 

Elvis Dowson

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