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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:10 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-06-01 03:35, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:00 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> 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.

> 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.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko