Kernel Project missing in manifest.xml

[Vikram]

I dowloaded the android source code few weeks back through the
following link, and I have been working on code for few days now. But
I recently checked out source code yesterday on a separate machine and
found out that after doing a 'repo sync' there is no kernel folder in
the source code.
repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git

Is this a deliberate omission of kernel in the manifest. I checked
that in .repo/manifest.xml there is no specification of kernel
project, as opposed to the earlier case where it was there.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

This is intentional. Having the kernel source in the android manifest
caused large downloads that few people needed, was not scalable, and
caused some confusion.

JBQ

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[Vikram]

Thanks. I appreciate your help in sorting out our problems.

Vikram

On Aug 31, 10:46 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote:
> This is intentional. Having the kernel source in the android manifest
> caused large downloads that few people needed, was not scalable, and
> caused some confusion.
>
> JBQ
>