You want to *remove* a user-visible interface that has been there for decades (granted, /proc has its issues and sysfs could replace it) because you want to make a kernel data structure a const structure? Many other things in the kernel still provide a procfs interface. -Ewan On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 4:46 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > The SCSI sysfs interface made the procfs interface superfluous. sysfs support was > added in the most prominent user of the procfs interface (sg3_utils) in 2008. The > implementation of the procfs interface makes it harder than necessary to constify > the SCSI host templates. Hence this patch series that removes the procfs interface. > > Please consider this patch series for the next merge window. > > Thanks, > > Bart. > > Bart Van Assche (4): > scsi: esas2r: Rename two functions and two variables > scsi: esas2r: Remove procfs support > scsi: core: Remove procfs support > scsi: core: Update a source code comment > > drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 11 - > drivers/scsi/Makefile | 1 - > drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r.h | 4 +- > drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_ioctl.c | 2 +- > drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_main.c | 43 +-- > drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 5 - > drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 8 +- > drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c | 146 --------- > drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h | 17 - > drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c | 477 ----------------------------- > drivers/scsi/sg.c | 358 ---------------------- > include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 8 +- > 12 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1066 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c >
