Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268674AbUI2QoK (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:44:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268710AbUI2QoK (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:44:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47589 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268674AbUI2QoE (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:44:04 -0400 Subject: RE: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston)" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-frRLFQu3OXujFAHoidhw" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1096476186.2786.45.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:43:06 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 38 --=-frRLFQu3OXujFAHoidhw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > 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 ... --=-frRLFQu3OXujFAHoidhw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBWuYaxULwo51rQBIRAtEEAKCWnF3bYNxFGYT3sILR72G59/h81wCfVnxs aRL4duPegsg1w9/xvTu5fXE= =/f2B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-frRLFQu3OXujFAHoidhw-- - 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/