On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:18:41AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > > commit e837eac23662afae603aaaef7c94bc839c1b8f67 > > > > Author: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> > > > > Date: Mon Mar 5 16:47:52 2001 +0000 > > > > > > > > Add bounds checking for direct I/O, do the cache invalidation for > > > > data coherency on direct I/O. > > > > > > Out of curiosity, which repository is this from please? Even google > > > doesn't seem to know about this SHA. > > > > because oss.sgi.com is no longer with us, it's fallen out of all the > > search engines. It was from the "archive/xfs-import.git" tree on > > oss.sgi.com: > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20120326044237/http://oss.sgi.com:80/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi > > > > but archive.org doesn't have a copy of the git tree. It contained > > the XFS history right back to the first Irix commit in 1993. Some of > > us still have copies of it sitting around.... > > For cases like this, would it be worth pushing it to git.kernel.org as an > frozen historical reference archive? I'm not sure we should be putting code from Irix on kernel.org. I uploaded a copy to github a few months ago so XFS devs could easily reference relevant commits in email. The reasons we decided not to upload it to kernel.org should be clear from the readme... https://github.com/dchinner/xfs-history Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
