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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:21:23 +0200
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Organization: SuSE Linux AG
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use proper seq_file api for /proc/scsi/scsi
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>/proc/scsi/scsi currently has a very dumb implementation of the seq_file
>>api which causes 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' to return with -ENOMEM when a
>>large amount of devices are connected.
> 
> /proc/scsi/scsi is deprecated and even only compiled in if
> "legacy /proc/scsi/ support" is enabled.  Please move over to lssci which
> is using sysfs ASAP.
> 
Ah. And that's enough reason for it not to work properly?
Deprecated as it may be, but one could at least expect it to _work_.

Puzzled.

Cheers,

Hannes
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