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 ...

The upshot was that developer circles have had a lot of heated words over what’s the right way of handling Android specific code in Linux.

The sync code also lies under an Android-specific controller, implying that the feature would be a little treat for all of the Android ecosystem rather than for Pixel devices alone, writes Rahman.