Specifically, Android's kernel was less than half of that--0.47 defects per 1,000 lines, Coverity said. Some bad news is that the Android-specific code had more problems.

Kroah-Hartman noted that some companies were already trying to strip the Android-specific interfaces from their code and push that upstream to the Linux kernel, "but that causes a much larger ...

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Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel.

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