Mainline kernel support for Android is complicated and maybe impossible

Android has its own special variant of the Linux kernel and that's not a good thing. But, for now, at least, it's a necessity. Why can't it be more like everything else? Google once again had a major presence at the yearly gathering of top Linux developers known as the Linux Plumbers Conference. This is where all the smart people who work hard to make the framework that most of the world's computers run on gather so they can iron out all the problems that any project this big is bound to have. S...