Re: [PATCH] Staging: Android logger: fix compiling error

Greg KH
2009-10-29T01:07:19Z

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:01:07AM +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:40:07PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> >>> Compiling broke since commit a99bbaf5ee6bad1aca0c88ea65ec6e5373e86184
> >>> headers: remove sched.h from poll.h
> >>>
> >>> Adding <linux/sched.h> to fix this compiling bug.
> >
> > I have now just marked the android drivers as broken, as this is not the
> > only build error in them at the moment :(
> >
>
> Yeah, actually the drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c has been
> failing to compile for a long time, because that struct mm_struct does
> not have a field named oom_adj. All the Android drivers are compiled
> as modules in Ubuntu kernel package, except this one.
>
> Although Android public kernel is still in 2.6.29, it's own driver is
> totally different with our mainline staging version. Is there any plan
> to sync with it?

No, Google has abandoned any current effort to push code upstream for
the past year :(

The android drivers are deleted in linux-next and will go away in 2.6.33
because of this.

thanks,

greg k-h