Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 02:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:10:09AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > * Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl) wrote:
> > > > No, there is no problem but an intentional change in behaviour in -mm
> > > > and now also in 2.6.11.8.
> > > 
> > > I think this should be backed out of -stable.
> > 
> > I was surprised to find it in, after I had written
> > 
> > ============
> > Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:58:07 +0200
> > 
> > For the time being, although I do not object to the patch,
> > obviously, since it is my own, I cannot see any reason to
> > add it to the "fixed" release.
> > ============
> > 
> > but maybe including it was done by mistake?
> > It wasn't mentioned, I think, in the changelog.
> > 
> > There was a report that it fixed an oops,
> > but the report is unconfirmed and ununderstood.
> > 
> > Should it be backed out of 2.6.11.8? Possibly - but if it will be
> > part of 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 then I would be inclined to leave it.
> > 
> > Andrew asks whether it should be removed from -mm.
> 
> It was merged into Linus's tree on March 8th (via bk, thank gawd.  How do
> you find out that sort of info using git?  Generating a full log is
> cheating).

You can get the commit-history for a file out of the web interface.
Here's another example, cause this change is not in the repository: 
  http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=lib/kobject.c

Thanks,
Kay