Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Dave Chinner wrote:

> > > commit e837eac23662afae603aaaef7c94bc839c1b8f67
> > > Author: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Mon Mar 5 16:47:52 2001 +0000
> > > 
> > >     Add bounds checking for direct I/O, do the cache invalidation for
> > >     data coherency on direct I/O.
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, which repository is this from please? Even google 
> > doesn't seem to know about this SHA.
> 
> because oss.sgi.com is no longer with us, it's fallen out of all the
> search engines.  It was from the "archive/xfs-import.git" tree on
> oss.sgi.com:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20120326044237/http://oss.sgi.com:80/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
> 
> but archive.org doesn't have a copy of the git tree. It contained
> the XFS history right back to the first Irix commit in 1993. Some of
> us still have copies of it sitting around....

For cases like this, would it be worth pushing it to git.kernel.org as an 
frozen historical reference archive?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs