From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Evan T Mesterhazy <etm2131@columbia.edu>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Changelog of features / drivers removed from kernel?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 07:52:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCDfrs94JH3l0XeA@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJh8_PuK-PRJnotjYdM0+5hvADROva1K+iOUY+3kofreDA+LVg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 05:30:34PM -0500, Evan T Mesterhazy wrote:
> Apologies if this comes off as a lazy question, but after a fair bit of
> searching I've been unable to find a changelog indicating which device
> drivers / features were dropped from various versions of the kernel. Does
> such a changelog exist?
`git log v5.1..v5.2` will show you the whole log, but that's a lot.
> I'm specifically trying to narrow down why the PCI devices on a server I
> have work with 5.8 and don't work with 5.9+. The server is circa 2014, so I
> suppose there's an off chance support for some component got dropped.
I doubt support for such modern hardware has been dropped in kernel
versions like this. Odds are you just forgot to update a configuration
option.
Try using `git bisect` to track down the offending commit, that will go
much faster.
good luck!
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-07 22:30 Changelog of features / drivers removed from kernel? Evan T Mesterhazy
2021-02-08 6:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-08 14:00 ` Evan T Mesterhazy
2021-02-09 9:03 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-02-09 14:44 ` Evan T Mesterhazy
2021-02-09 14:45 ` Greg KH
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