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Bug#256113: /proc/scsi for sata_sil



On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [2004-08-09 21:50]:
> > Looks like you used an upstream kernel.  It's a feature, but the debian
> > patches reintroduce these files wrongly because mkinitrd makes invalid
> > assumptions.
> 
> What's the wrong assumption and how should mkinitrd behave correctly?

It shouldn't use /proc/scsi/ at all.  It's a deprecated interface, ands
the number of HBA drivers exporting it at all is decreasing.  James
Bottomley has a patch for that, Jeff said he'd work on it once he's a
little less loaded.




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