linux-kernel - Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config

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Date:	Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:28:14 +0100
From:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
To:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
CC:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, tomasw@...il.com,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linville@...driver.com, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net, johannes@...solutions.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock
 fix

Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> 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

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