How to search topics in The Kernelnewbies Archives?

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 17:53:03 EDT 2016


On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:58 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:27:03 +0800, Chi Wang said:
>
>> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/
>>
>> Is there a general way to do searching in this archive?
>> Or I have to download all the packages?
>
> Google can do wonders.
>
> Say you're trying to find the discussion 2 years ago about how to
> write a frobnizz driver.   Go to google, and enter:
>
> frobnizz site:kernelnewbies.org
>
> and that should do the heavy lifting for you.


That's pretty sad.

It doesn't work for kernelnewbies, but markmail.org is a much better
search engine for mailing lists in supports (thousands of them).

Definitely what I use for the main kernel list archives.

You can use a similar "list:" syntax if you know what list you want to search.

Greg



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