From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] conditionally re-enable per-disk stats, convert to seq_file
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:33:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808003325.A14578@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020807211856.GB322@win.tue.nl>; from aebr@win.tue.nl on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:18:56PM +0200
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:18:56PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> But why in /proc/partitions ?
> Maybe /proc/partitions can go away eventually with all info available
> under driverfs or so. But for the time being, /proc/partitions is used,
> and some changes are planned to make identification of the devices
> involved easier.
> It is really ugly to stuff a lot of garbage into a file just because
> it happens to exist already. If you want disk statistics, why not
> put it in /proc/diskstatistics?
Because it's where existing tools expect it. I agree with you that we
want a nicer interface for 2.6, but give the userbase some time to
prepare for a new interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 14:08 [PATCH] conditionally re-enable per-disk stats, convert to seq_file Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-07 21:02 ` Kurt Garloff
2002-08-07 21:18 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 22:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-07 22:59 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 23:10 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-07 23:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
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