Bug#742619: linux: Please reenable CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS

[Mi]

Please re-consider the "wontfix" decision.

This makes it impossible to use LTO tape drives on Debian, and it forced 
me to install CentOS on the machine controlling the tape loader, when 
all my other Linux machines are Debian.


Mi

Bug#742619: linux: Please reenable CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS

[Christian Seiler]

Control: found -1 3.16.3-2

Hi,

Since the freeze for Jessie is around the corner, I wanted to ask if you
have considered enabling this again at least for Jessie?

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Christian


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Bug#742619: linux: Please reenable CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS

[Christian Seiler]

Hello,

I'm sorry if this seems pushy, but since it is trivial to implement 
this
change, I'd like to ask if you've considered reenabling 
CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS?


Thank you!

Regards,
Christian


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Bug#742619: linux: Please reenable CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS

[Christian Seiler]

Package: linux
Version: 3.2.54-2
Severity: wishlist

Some hardware vendor tools (e.g. HP Library and Tape Tools) still rely 
on the

existence of /proc/scsi.

In Squeeze /proc/scsi was re-enabled in linux-2.6 (2.6.32-32) see also 
#618258

and it is still default upstream:

path: root/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
blob: c8bd092fc945fd5a1a407b170c398e126beaa0e4 (plain)

config SCSI_PROC_FS
bool legacy /proc/scsi/ support
depends on SCSI  PROC_FS
default y
---help---
  This option enables support for the various files in
  /proc/scsi.  In Linux 2.6 this has been superseded by
  files in sysfs but many legacy applications rely on this.

  If unsure say Y.

Many other distributions, for example Ubuntu and Fedora, activate it by
default in all recent versions.

Unfortunately, in Wheezy it is disabled again:
  /boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64:# CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set

To re-enable /proc/scsi is an unobtrusive change which would help a lot
if one depends on one of these vendor applications.

Please consider this small change for both Wheezy and Jessie.

Thank you.

Regards,
Christian


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