Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267469AbUIWWFt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:05:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267460AbUIWWFV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:05:21 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34788 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267450AbUIWWEj (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:04:39 -0400 Subject: RE: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2: 3ware card info not in /proc/scsi From: Alan Cox To: Adam Radford Cc: Glenn Johnson , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1095973323.6735.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:02:04 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 13 On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 20:24, Adam Radford wrote: > There was so much dead code in the 3w-xxxx driver that it needed a major > facelift for 2.6. Otherwise it would eventually have been marked broken. > As a part of the facelift, you must update your tools. Nobody can guarantee > future proofness of userspace tools that access low level kernel ioctls, > /proc entries, /sysfs entries, etc. Sure but thats a lot easier to manage when source code is available. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/