On: Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsole...

[umustbjoking]

Why look so far down the list?

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

Bug 82. Number one on the list. Been open 6 years. Patch offered and integrated into CyanogenMod for years. Y u no integrate the patch Google?

[p_l → umustbjoking]

I think the real issue is that nobody[1] really cares about ad-hoc networking, especially in anything linux related. I recall times when NetworkManager team, back then the only "nice" tool for wifi, outright claimed they don't ever care about ad-hoc (or even static IP).

Similarly, barely anything appears to support ad-hoc, and I am not sure if many current users recall that it exists at all…

[1] an obvious hyperbole, but that's the feeling I get

[kyrra → umustbjoking]

There could be patent issues behind preventing it? Maybe telecom companies telling Google not to implement it.

[izacus → kyrra]

Then why doesn't someone just write that and close the bug?