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

Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29T17:27:59Z

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 18:29, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>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.
> >
> >
> > 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!

Thank you, Andreas. I forgot to mention that very salient point!

mikem

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