RE: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat

From: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 11:32:42 EST



> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:13:45AM -0500, mike.miller@xxxxxx 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.

mikem
>
> You get more detailed statistics in /proc/partitions.
>
>
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