Re: Finding when a chip was supported in the kernel

Rob Groner <rgroner@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 Bjørn