> -----Original Message----- > From: Bjørn Mork [mailto:bj...@mork.no] > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 12:05 PM > To: Rob Groner <rgro...@rtd.com> > Cc: Carlo Caione <ca...@caione.org>; kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > Subject: Re: Finding when a chip was supported in the kernel > > Rob Groner <rgro...@rtd.com> writes: > > > Hmm...I don't think I share the idea that it was extremely easy. :) > > OK :) > > > But it is something I can try at least, assuming I can get at least as > > far as figuring out which driver file a particular chip gets its > > support from. With Intel chips, that IS pretty easy. > > > > Using the blame I see that it gives a date and a commit reference. > > How do I then correlate that to the kernel version where it first > > showed up? I'm assuming there's a git command for showing that. > > That was the other command Carlo gave, which I failed to quote. Sorry about > that. Carlo wrote: > > > git describe --contains $SHA > > e.g > > bjorn@nemi:/usr/local/src/git/linux$ git describe --contains 4662e82b2cb41 > v2.6.28-rc1~717^2~323 >
Great, thank you! Rob _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
