Question

I want to know how to see the changelogs or commit messages for a module in the kernel. Actually i modified virtio_net in kernel2.6.26. Now the virtio_net in 2.6.34 seems to be lot different from the one in 2.6.26. There should be some git commit messages or changelogs for the different versions of virtio_net. I want to know the progressive difference in features for the module in 2.6.26 and 2.6.34. How to do that? Thank you…

Thanks,
Bala

Answer 1

First, install git and clone the kernel tree:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Now you can use git log on an file(s) or directory.

git log drivers/net/virtio_net.c