kernel version incorporating a particular feature

[amit mehta]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Kirsher <tarbal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 02:17 AM, amit mehta wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:14 PM, amit mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How do i find the linux kernel version from which a certain
>>>> feature was first incorporated. For example , How do i find the
>>>> first kernel version which had support for
>>>> GRO (generic receive offload) ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Amit
>>>>
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>>> Hi Amit,
>>>
>>> Kernel version is 2.6.29 refer http://lwn.net/Articles/358910/
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rohan Puri
>>>
>> Thanks Rohan, But still there should be some information in a changelog
>> for each kernel release somewhere. Currently looking for such information
>> in Linus's tree(https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/),
>> but it seems like getting such kind of information is quite engaging.
>>
>> - Amit
>>
> You can always use a LXR to find when a feature was first incorporated.
> Here is a link to just one of the several LXR available:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/
>
You mean to say browse the code, no changelog or something ?

-Amit