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		manchmalscott 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux 6.18 Expected to Land Google's Rust Binder D... What is the benefit to the wider Linux ecosystem to upstream what looks to be a very android specific component?

duskwuff 5 months ago | [–]

It's already in the kernel. This is a rewrite of an existing component (drivers/android/binder.c).

kimixa 5 months ago | [–]

Because a single community is a greater whole? There's other things in the kernel that Android-focused developers work on, and forcing them to a fork raises the barrier to merge their work into the mainline.

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