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		gizmo686 on Jan 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu for phones How different is the Android kernel from mainline? If it is just a case of drivers shouldn't they be able to easily merge them back to mainline as modules?

wmf on Jan 3, 2013 [–]

All the drivers (for recent hardware) are either binary or so ugly that mainline will probably refuse to merge them.

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