netdev - Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20220629161020.GA24891@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:10:20 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
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        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
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        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@...gle.com>,
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        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
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        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG_ANDROID

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 06:09:18PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> CONFIG_ANDROID is used here for a reason. As somebody suggested in
> another thread of which you were a participant, it acts as a proxy for
> "probably running on Android hardware",

No, it does not in any way.