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

From: mikem
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 12:24:36 EST


On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:43:06PM +0200, 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 ...

Obviously no one is using 2.4.28 yet, but it's pretty hard to update the ancient kernels. I've also submitted patches to our partners to fix this in their distros.

mikem
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