Return-path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.229]:2013 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751559AbYHAQnA (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:43:00 -0400 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id a16so1115495qbd.17 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4893399E.8080503@tuffmail.co.uk> (sfid-20080801_184303_698404_31314DA7) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:28:14 +0100 From: Alan Jenkins MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Copeland CC: Jiri Slaby , tomasw@gmail.com, Dave Young , stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, Pekka Enberg , ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, johannes@sipsolutions.net, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix References: <20080801074014.GA3341@darkstar> <4892C2CA.7010003@gmail.com> <4892C359.9000304@cs.helsinki.fi> <20080801011415.ff4821a3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4893257C.1020907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Bob Copeland wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >>> Not to worry, the commit that introduced it was >>> 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65, which as far as I can tell >>> came in after 2.6.26. >>> >> git-describe 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65 >> v2.6.26-rc8-1219-g9d139c8 >> > > I'm not that expert in git, what does that mean? Some other commits > for 2.6.27 also show a 2.6.26-rc from git-describe (e.g. my > 3a078876caee). > > For my own investigation, I did a 'git-checkout v2.6.26' and looked at > the code to see the patch had not been applied yet. Is there an > easier way to definitively say commit X is/is not in tagged release Y? > > Aha! I think we want git-describe --contains. $ git-describe --contains 2b142900784c6e38c8d39fa57d5f95ef08e735d8 v2.6.27-rc1~55^2~1 Alan