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

Andreas Haumer
2004-09-29T17:00:20Z

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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 18:29, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
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>>>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.
>
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> I doubt you have many customers using 2.4.28.... I suspect that by now
> the majority of people is either using an (ancient) 2.4 vendor kernel or
> a 2.6 kernel. The very low number of reports on lkml about 2.4 seems to
> confirm that ...

"25% of accidents are caused by drunken drivers. That means
75% of accidents are caused by drivers which did not drink.
So why keep people complaining about alcohol and driving?"

Is that what you mean? You must be kidding!

The majority of _our_ customers are using 2.4.x kernels
(x beeing in the range from 19 to 28pre3) and it looks like
it will stay that for quite a while...

- - andreas

PS: I know this is somewhat off topic, but I just want to raise
my voice if I get the impression kernel developers forget about
the "real world outside". I will shut up in a moment! Thank you!

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