Re: [PATCH 3/4] scsi: core: Remove procfs support

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 8/12/22 14:17, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> On 2022-08-12 16:45, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> There are equivalents for all /proc/scsi functionality in sysfs. The most
>> prominent user of /proc/scsi is the sg3_utils software package. Support
>> for systems without /proc/scsi was added to sg3_utils in 2008. Hence
>> remove procfs support from the SCSI core.
> 
> Perhaps it is just me but I find 'cat /proc/scsi/sg/debug' very useful
> when something goes wrong with the sg driver or something that it depends
> on. Part of my sg driver rewrite (3 years and still pending) was to
> transfer the output that formerly went to /proc/scsi/sg/debug to
> debugfs instead (or as well).
> 
> The most recent version of that procfs-->debugfs work for the sg driver
> can be found in a post to this list titled: "[PATCH v24 35/46] sg: first
> debugfs support" on 20220410.
> 
> Put another way, there are many hours of debugging experience that will be
> lost by:
>    drivers/scsi/sg.c           | 358 ---------------------------

Hi Doug,

How about extracting patch "[PATCH v24 35/46] sg: first debugfs support" 
from that 46 patch series and including it in this patch series?

Thanks,

Bart.