Re: [PATCH 0/2] video: fbdev: fix error handling, convert to pin_user_pages*()

[John Hubbard]

On 2020-06-01 03:35, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:00 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2020-05-31 14:11, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >      ...
> > > JFYI, we have history.git starting from v0.01.
> > OK, thanks for that note. According to that history.git [1],
> > then: drivers/video/pvr2fb.c had get_user_pages_fast() support added to
> > pvr2fb_write() back in 2004, but only for CONFIG_SH_DMA, as part of
> >
> >       commit 434502754f2 ("[PATCH] SH Merge")
> >
> > ...and that commit created the minor bug that patch 0001 here
> > addresses. (+Cc Paul just for the sake of completeness.)
> >
> >
> > [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
>
> I mentioned this one, but I guess content should be the same.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/

Actually, that history.git *starts* at Linux 2.6.12-rc2, while
tglx/history.git *ends* at Linux 2.6.12-rc2 (which is in April, 2005).
And the commit I was looking for is in 2004. So that's why I needed a
different stretch of history.



thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA