On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Steve Weis <stevew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ git log --pretty=format:"%an" drivers/char/random.c | sort | uniq | wc
Guys, I assumed you knew that kernel history was reset a few times. If
you want to approach it thoroughly, you start with all names at [1]
since 2010. Then, download the .tar at [2] and run something like:
git log --stat
| sed -n '\@^\(Author: \| drivers/char/random\.c\)@p'
| sed -n '/^Author/h; /^ drivers/{x; p}'
| sed 's/Author: //; s/<.*//'
Sort the names, remove variations, and 54 are left [3].
These are just the authors (not even signed-offs), non-trivial commits
are typically posted to linux-kernel mailing list, where they are
reviewed and commented on by anyone who wishes to do so. Moreover,
many companies and developers customize the kernel to suit their own
needs. Number of people who went over random.c over the last 20 years
is most likely in the thousands. I know I applied a patch to get
entropy from the sound card in the 90's myself — this is not some dead
code, and this is definitely not some Java class library project that
got lifted into some corporate JVM spinoff.
In any case, I find this bikeshedding of side remarks pretty annoying,
it is quite pointless.
[1]
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/char/random.c
[2] http://archive.org/download/git-history-of-linux/full-history-linux.git.tar
[3]
Adam Buchbinder
Adrian Bunk
Alexander Viro
Alexey Dobriyan
Andi Kleen
Andrea Righi
Andrew Morton
Andy Shevchenko
Anton Blanchard
Arjan van de Ven
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Arnd Bergmann
Art Haas
Bálint Márton
Brian Gerst
Christoph Hellwig
Christoph Lameter
Chris Wedgwood
Dave Jones
Dave Maietta
David Howells
David S. Miller
Dmitry Torokhov
Eric Dumazet
Eric W. Biederman
Herbert Xu
H. Peter Anvin
Ingo Molnar
Jarod Wilson
Jeff Dike
Jiri Kosina
Joe Perches
Jörn Engel
Josef Sipek
Kai Germaschewski
Linus Torvalds
Lucas De Marchi
Manfred Spraul
Mathieu Desnoyers
Matthew Wilcox
Matt Mackall
Neil Horman
Olof Johansson
Richard Kennedy
Robert Love
Rusty Russell
Sam Ravnborg
Serge E. Hallyn
Stephen Hemminger
Tejun Heo
Theodore Ts'o
Thomas Gleixner
Tony Luck
Yinghai Lu
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