[$] An update on the Android problem

Android has been a great boon to the kernel community, having brought agreat deal of growth in both the user and the development communities. ButAndroid has also been a problem in that devices running it ship withkernels containing large amounts (often millions of lines) of out-of-treecode. That fragments the development community and makes it impossible torun mainline kernels on this hardware. The problematic side of Android wasdiscussed at the 2017 Maintainer Summit; the picture that resulted issurprisingly optimistic.