RE: Finding when a chip was supported in the kernel

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjørn Mork [mailto:bjorn@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 12:05 PM
> To: Rob Groner <rgroner@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx>; kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Finding when a chip was supported in the kernel
> 
> Rob Groner <rgroner@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Hmm...I don't think I share the idea that it was extremely easy.  :)
> 
> OK :)
> 
> > But it is something I can try at least, assuming I can get at least as
> > far as figuring out which driver file a particular chip gets its
> > support from.  With Intel chips, that IS pretty easy.
> >
> > Using the blame I see that it gives a date and a commit reference.
> > How do I then correlate that to the kernel version where it first
> > showed up?  I'm assuming there's a git command for showing that.
> 
> That was the other command Carlo gave, which I failed to quote.  Sorry about
> that. Carlo wrote:
> 
> > git describe --contains $SHA
> 
> e.g
> 
> bjorn@nemi:/usr/local/src/git/linux$  git describe --contains 4662e82b2cb41
> v2.6.28-rc1~717^2~323
> 

Great, thank you!

Rob

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