Re: scsi proc_info called unconditionally

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 05:00:38 EST


On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 10:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> No! proc_info is deprecated in 2.6 and you should not add a new
> implementation. If you want to expose information to userland
> use sysfs.

It probably should give the driver name and version. Christoph is
right in the longer term but in the real world people still expect
/proc/scsi/* to contain at least that info.

Possibly for 2.7.x /proc/scsi/* should become an fs or entirely sysfs

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