From: tarbal@gmail.com (Jeff Kirsher)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: kernel version incorporating a particular feature
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:16:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E95770A.7060203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOUxTKNMr_wJ+Dft8OYoOEfkw7iX0c5ejuWUKW82qGmSYczHTQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/12/2011 02:17 AM, amit mehta wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:14 PM, amit mehta <gmate.amit@gmail.com> 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
>>>
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>>> Kernelnewbies mailing list
>>> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
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>> 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/
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 8:44 kernel version incorporating a particular feature amit mehta
2011-10-12 8:50 ` rohan puri
2011-10-12 9:17 ` amit mehta
2011-10-12 11:16 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2011-10-12 12:12 ` amit mehta
2011-10-12 12:59 ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-10-12 13:44 ` Matt Schulte
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