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Noob question - what is the advantage for Huawei in getting this moved out of staging? All of their devices are already using it despite it being in staging. Is
by nindalf 7y ago
Noob question - what is the advantage for Huawei in getting this moved out of staging? All of their devices are already using it despite it being in staging. Is it to reduce maintenance burden on themselves because it's now a shared responsibility?
- robert_foss 7y agoExactly. But also to make sure that it isn't kicked out of the kernel. Staging is not meant to be a permanent location for any kernel code.
- londons_explore 7y agoFilesystems are fairly pluggable, so them keeping it private isn't that big a burden. They would be expected to maintain it either way. The biggest benefit would probably be if they hope to get Google to make it a standard part of Android, or hope for other manufacturers to start using it (and therefore sharing the work of feature development and maintanance).