Re: [PATCH] hostfs: fix mismatch between link_file definition and declaration

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Mon Mar 18 2019 - 05:45:08 EST


Am Montag, 18. März 2019, 09:41:28 CET schrieb Colin Ian King:
> On 17/03/2019 23:49, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Am Montag, 18. März 2019, 00:09:09 CET schrieb Colin King:
> >> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The function link_file declaration in the header file has the order
> >> of the two arguments (from, to) swapped when compared to the definition
> >> arguments of (to, from). Fix this by swapping them around to match
> >> the definition.
> >>
> >> This error predates the git history, so no idea when this error
> >> was introduced.
> >
> > commit bf4f804738544a95b8bc8d6a7e2629c3fc0240dd
> > Author: jdike <jdike>
> > Date: Sat Dec 9 22:52:44 2000 +0000
> >
> > hostfs now mostly works. Almost all of the common operations are now
> > implemented, the main exceptions being mknod and executing files from
> > a hostfs filesystem.
> >
> > Enough archaeology for today. :-)
>
> Nice. How do you find these ancient git commits?

This commit is from the old UML cvs tree.
I did a import to git some time ago and pushed it to:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml-history.git/

For classic pre-git stuff, check:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/

Thanks,
//richard