From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Baker,
Brian (ISS - Houston)" <brian.b@hp.com>
Subject: Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:35:48 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929203548.GA19037@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4CFB69C345C394284E4B78B876C1CF107DBFE0B@cceexc23.americas.cpqcorp.net>
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:29:59AM -0500, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:13:45AM -0500, mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
> > > Currently cciss statistics are not collected in /proc/stat.
> > This patch
> > > bumps DK_MAX_MAJOR to 111 to fix that. This has been a
> > common complaint
> > > by customers wishing to gather info about cciss devices.
> > > Please consider this for inclusion. Applies to 2.4.28-pre3.
> >
> > This patch has been reject about half a million times, why are people
> > submitting it again and again?
>
> As I said in my mail, it's a customer driven issue. As long as customers rely on /proc/stat we'll keep trying. You can't tell a customer how he/she should be doing things on their systems.
Mike,
I dont like the patch either.
If you can have the same statistics through /proc/partitions
(do I get this right?) just tell that to users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 16:29 patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:29 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-29 16:58 ` Andreas Haumer
2004-10-01 5:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-09-29 17:20 ` mikem
2004-10-01 5:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-09-29 20:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
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2004-09-29 19:26 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 19:26 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 19:39 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-29 17:25 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 17:25 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:13 mike.miller
2004-09-29 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29 19:08 ` Neil Horman
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