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- To: Ewen McNeill <debian@ewen.mcneill.gen.nz>
- Cc: 418757-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#418757: Debian Etch: Patch: /proc/scsi/aacraid missing
- From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:37:04 +0200
- Message-id: <20090717223704.GA28651@galadriel.inutil.org>
- In-reply-to: <20080612210017.8BA441144E7@wat.la.naos.co.nz>
- References: <dannf@debian.org> <20080611053514.GB13860@colo.lackof.org> <20080612210017.8BA441144E7@wat.la.naos.co.nz>
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:00:17AM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> In message <20080611053514.GB13860@colo.lackof.org>, dann frazier writes:
> >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:28:49PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> >> Amongst other things this prevents using the Dell afacli management tool
> >> to monitor/manage the RAID arrays, since it checks for
> >> /proc/scsi/aacraid and aborts if [/proc/scsi/aacraid] is not found.
> >> [Trivial patch, from Dell engineers]
> >
> >Thanks Ewen. The first step in getting it into Debian would be to make
> >sure it gets upstream.
>
> Thanks for the prompt response.
>
> I've checked the Linux 2.6.24 kernel source (eg, as in Testing now) and
> it's not present there. I also emailed the two Dell engineers listed on
> the original patch and they tell me that the subsystem maintainer
> rejected their patch due to the move away from using procfs for such
> information (to using sysfs instead). Apparently Dell got their core
> management tool updated to use the new interface (by the third party
> supplier), but it looks like the command line management tool I want to
> use never got updated.
>
> I understand your reluctance to carry a special patch in Debian, but
> I do note that this appears to be a feature regression from Sarge ->
> Etch as Marcin Owsiany noted 14 months ago (since the /proc interface
> was present in Sarge and gone in Etch, and the tool seems to have worked
> with Sarge but doesn't work with Etch, due to changes in the way the
> compiler handled uninitialised data and the things that needed to be
> set to make the proc file appear).
>
> Perhaps it's now too late to do anything about this.
Indeed, closing the bug now.
Cheers,
Moritz
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