Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat

Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-29T22:38:16Z

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.