How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)
Yedidyah Bar David
linux-il at didi.bardavid.org
Mon Dec 21 13:12:01 IST 2015
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> During the last several months, I was having a problem of USB mouse
> disconnecting and reconnecting very often in my Linux system (Debian
> Wheezy, kernels 3.16.0-4-amd64 and 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64). Recently a
> similar problem started to affect also my printer.
>
> Hardware problems were ruled out yesterday in the computer repair lab.
>
> I found some information which suggested that it has to do with USB
> power control, and that there are several problems with USB handling in
> general.
>
> I also saw that other people complain about similar problems, often
> without a solution to their problems.
>
> So I wanted to search the Linux Kernel changelogs for any recent changes
> in the USB subsystem.
>
> Unfortunately I found no such search function.
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ has all changelogs in its
> subdirectories but no search function.
> The search function in http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges is broken -
> I get Web searches even when I choose "This site".
>
> What do you do when you need to search Linux kernel changesets for
> relevant changes?
If no better solution, you can clone the kernel git repo and use git to
search there.
--
Didi
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