From: mikem <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Baker,
Brian (ISS - Houston)" <brian.b@hp.com>
Subject: Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:20:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929172058.GC22308@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096476186.2786.45.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 16:29 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-29 16:58 ` Andreas Haumer
2004-10-01 5:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-09-29 17:20 ` mikem [this message]
2004-10-01 5:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-09-29 20:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-29 19:26 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 19:39 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-29 17:25 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:13 mike.miller
2004-09-29 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29 19:08 ` Neil Horman
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