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Subject: RE: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:29:59 -0500
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Thread-Topic: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat
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From: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>
To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>, <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Cc: <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston)" <brian.b@hp.com>
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> 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.

mikem
> 
> You get more detailed statistics in /proc/partitions.
> 
> 
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