From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 05:57:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 05:57:04 -0400 Received: from imladris.infradead.org ([194.205.184.45]:17670 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 05:57:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:56:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Alan Cox , hpa@zytor.com, lkml Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions Message-ID: <20020524105632.A7658@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Marcelo Tosatti , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Alan Cox , hpa@zytor.com, lkml In-Reply-To: <20020516085022.B14643@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:27:13PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I rather send a complete backout patch for mainline instead. This format > > has been used by the vendor (Red Hat, SuSE, etc..) kernels since 2.2 ages > > and is used (if present) by the stock performance tools for linux > > (i.e. syststat package, iostats > > Look, I just do not want to break some apps which read /proc/partitions. > Thats it. Umm, thos apps would have broken on any stock Red Hat/SuSE/Mandrake installation of the last years! > Look, changing the userlevel apps to at least know about the new format is > not hard. And you can do that over time. Well, the stock sysstat util works with this format now with the vendor kernels, recent -ac and 2.4.19-pre. If you don't want this I can send a backout patch - again only people using vendor kernel or maybe -ac will have that feature. No big point.