On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 11:31 -0700, Tyler wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-30 > Severity: wishlist > > First and foremost, I've already browsed several bug reports dating > back to 2008 that have requested this to be turned back on (mostly in > the now nonexistent scsiadd package). There are sysfs files you can poke to add SCSI devices. > The general attitude is "bug your software vendor if they don't > support sysfs" but really, you can't expect this out of everyone. > Especially a place like HighPoint who hasn't touched their drivers > since 10/22/2009. I respect the position but, in my opinion, you're > only hurting consumer level Debian users by turning extremely minor > things like this off. It is not the responsibility of the kernel team to support out-of-tree drivers. I would strongly discourage anyone from buying hardware that does not have in-tree drivers. But it sounds like you are conflating the driver and the utilities. The driver surely does not depend on /proc/scsi/scsi. [...] > I think it should be turned back on to continue to support devices > that use it that are unlikely to see their kernel tainting drivers > updated to not use /proc/scsi. [...] Given that the upstream default is still Y, you may be right. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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