Re: linux.bkbits.net question: mapping cset to kernel version?

patrick mcmanus
2005-05-18T16:41:08Z

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 10:11, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Given a particular file and a particular bitkeeper revision for the file, how can I tell
> which version of the kernel incorporated that changeset?
>
> In particular, I want to know about revision 1.65 of mm/rmap.c, which can be seen at
> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/mm/rmap.c@1.65?nav=index.html|src/|src/mm|hist/mm/rmap.c
>
> I want to know what the first version of Linux is to incorporate that change.
>

The most pragmatic thing to do is to take the comment from the
changeset, which in this case is "mm: get_user_pages vs. try_to_unmap"
and plop that into google as "changelog mm: get_user_pages vs.
try_to_unmap".. and that will point you very quickly to the right
release changelog that includes it, because the changelogs are generally
driven right from the comments.. in this case

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.7-rc3

While this isn't scientific - it has a very high success rate and is
easy as pi..