Android Kernel Upstreaming to the Linux Kernel
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Describes moving Android kernel patches from AOSP into mainline Linux by extracting, cleaning and submitting code via mailing lists and staging trees, getting maintainer approval, and landing it on kernel.org; claims about scale include ~27,000 lines for the experimental 3.8 Android branch (about one serial driver), shows that many patches are tiny but trigger larger subsystem work, and reports merged changes that make device drivers usable in mainline and reduce vendor patch maintenance.
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