On 10/12/2011 05:12 AM, amit mehta wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Kirsher <tarbal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/12/2011 02:17 AM, amit mehta wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:14 PM, amit mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx> 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 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Kernelnewbies mailing list >>>>> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >>>> 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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