There is an effort to upstream all the Android kernel patches to make Android device kernel updates simple: https://lwn.net/Articles/771974/ https://lwn.net/Ar

There is an effort to upstream all the Android kernel patches to make Android device kernel updates simple: https://lwn.net/Articles/771974/ https://lwn.net/Articles/771974/ Also some vendors such as Sony have standardized kerbel versions across many devices & publish kernel major version updates for a range of devices (in Sonys case called the open device program).