On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:56 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:23:46AM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > > > It works for those setups that already worked with 2.4.x, aka only a few > > > luns. > > > > Even if it's deprecated, wouldn't it be good to fix it as long as > > it's there, unless it hurts something else? Or at least fix the > > out of memory error, even if it doesn't display all the luns? > > What other error would you return? I don't particularly care what exact > error code to return, but putting in Hannes patch would be a bad idea because > it > > a) poke deep into driver model internals, and we absolutely want to avoid > that > b) sets a bad precedence that we'll continue adding features to deprecated > interface and thus encurage people to contiue using it. Note that > /proc/scsi/* has been deprecated since mid-2.5.x. so how about starting to remove it? eg give it its final resting date, start defaulting the config option to "n" and such... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
