Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:35:48 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
       "Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston)" <brian.b@hp.com>
Subject: Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:29:59AM -0500, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Mike, 

I dont like the patch either.

If you can have the same statistics through /proc/partitions 
(do I get this right?) just tell that to users.

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