The patches he submitted were to the kernel? He says it will take a long time for those patches to make it to devices, but I question the validity of the asser

The patches he submitted were to the kernel? He says it will take a long time for those patches to make it to devices, but I question the validity of the assertion simply because Google has moved more and more into the Play framework. So, unless it is truly a kernel bug I would expect that it's fixable in the framework ore target application. Please correct me if I am mistaken though.