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

[John Hubbard]

On 2020-06-01 10:25, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:10 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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,
>
> It's not true.

OK I see, neither a straight "git log" nor git branches will suffice, you
have to use tags in order to get to the older versions.

> > 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.
>
> Actually history/history.git contains all of them starting from v0.01.
> But it ends, indeed, on 2.6.33.

thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA