kernel version incorporating a particular feature

[Jeff Kirsher]

On 10/12/2011 05:12 AM, amit mehta wrote:
> 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
>
>

Well I was not thinking of browsing the code, because that would take a
long time.  But I was thinking of an identifier search which is much
faster and you can cover several kernel versions in a lot less time than
it would take to read a changelog of every release looking for a
feature.

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