Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268720AbUI2RAU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:00:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268667AbUI2RAT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:00:19 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:16915 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268710AbUI2RAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:00:05 -0400 Message-ID: <415AE9CF.40008@xss.co.at> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:58:55 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer Organization: xS+S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com CC: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" , 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)" Subject: Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat References: <1096476186.2786.45.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> In-Reply-To: <1096476186.2786.45.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2010 Lines: 53 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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! - -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBWum9xJmyeGcXPhERArzMAKCYhHvVvwpFObCzrPby2qY9u9MURQCgrelJ BpeZ2tG8zw0po/5ByYKFuZk= =RlQc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/