From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Mansfield Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: /proc/scsi/scsi patch for large number of devices Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:01:18 -0700 Message-ID: <20050823180118.GB6914@us.ibm.com> References: <1124815241.22518.11.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20050823174206.GA12359@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:25579 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932261AbVHWSBY (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:01:24 -0400 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7NI1NNN235198 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:01:23 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j7NI0q0I531672 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:00:52 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7NI1LMm016780 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:01:22 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050823174206.GA12359@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mark Haverkamp , James Bottomley , linux-scsi On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:42:06PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We had this before, and the answer is: don't use /proc/scsi if you have > lots of device. Don't even enable the config option. We still don't have sysfs scsi devinfo support, we need to represent it as a modifiable list or such under sysfs. -- Patrick Mansfield