Technical debt
summary
Android kernel work uses an upstream-first GKI policy and an Android Mainline tracking branch that rebases a maintained patch series onto GregKH merges; tooling automates rebases and conflict resolution so the series can apply to vanilla upstream and reproduce Android Mainline. Current inventory lists 224 patches with about 42 pending upstream, a historical peak near 800, and a steady plateau around 200–300. Most remaining out-of-tree changes are local config, build metadata, symbol exports and render-hook stubs; hotspots include networking, scheduler and incremental FS.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:33One definition of technical debt
- 1:32Tracking out-of-tree patches
- 4:37Patches over time
- 5:40Maintainer Tooling
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