-----Original Message----- From: Bjørn Mork [mailto:bjorn@mork.no] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 12:05 PM To: Rob Groner <rgroner@RTD.com> Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@caione.org>; kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: 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
Great, thank you! Rob