From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
Paul Mackeras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: scsi proc_info called unconditionally
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:07:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030817110713.A30739@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061114176.21502.11.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:56:17AM +0100
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:56:17AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
/proc/scsi/* is not standardized so even if you add a name no
userspace tool can sanely parse it without knowing all drivers.
sysfs OTOH can do this sanely.
So, no it does not make sense to add anything here for a 2.6 driver.
> Possibly for 2.7.x /proc/scsi/* should become an fs or entirely sysfs
/proc/scsi/ will be optional and marked deprecated with with one of my
next patches and go away in 2.9.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-17 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-16 8:44 Olaf Hering
2003-08-16 10:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-16 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-17 8:09 ` Olaf Hering
2003-08-17 9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-17 9:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-17 10:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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