Re: Kernel symbol version history

    Thank you.

       I made use of one of the linux cross reference sites.
       Though unless I don't know how to effectively use them trying to
track the history of a function, typdef, define, ..
       is not particularly easy using lxr.

       Grant's sugestion with git was closer to what I was looking for -
except that in some instances 
    needed to go back farther than it would take me..


Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote:

Hi David,

You could try the various "linux cross reference" web site out there. It is 
not necessarily complete (some linux version might be missing)  but it can be 
usefull to lookup if some symbols/define/typedef were available in a 
particular Linux version.

Have a look there.

http://free-electrons.com/community/kernel/lxr

Regards

JC

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 17:17:25 David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
  

quoted

    This might be slightly OT here, but would anyone know where there
might be a reference that indicates at precisely what version a given
symbol either appeared or disappeared within the  Linux kernel ?

     As an example if a driver is supposed to work for 2.6 and 2.4 and
uses sysfs, or cdev, or alloc_chr_dev_region or ...
    How can one tell at what point that api or symbol appeared so that
the proper conditionals appear within the driver.

    The last one that bit me was I made a collection of casting changes
to address 64bit vs. 32bit targets, and found that using the C99 fixed
size types - uint32_t, ... made life much more pleasant, after putting
them I nobody else could build because uintptr_t did not appear until
2.6.24, and I still have not figured out exactly when uint32_t etc.
appeared.

    I would think there ought to be some resource besides group memory
to look this up ?
    Is there a way to use git to look back through the history of a
symbol rather than a file.
    

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