From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:35:48 -0300 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040929203548.GA19037@logos.cnet> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:20924 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269162AbUI2Wgt (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:36:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston)" 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.