RE: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2: 3ware card info not in /proc/scsi

[Glenn Johnson]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:32, Adam Radford wrote:

> Glenn,
> 
> The /proc/scsi interface is being deprecated by the SCSI subsystem maintainers.

I am aware of that.  I also thought the interface would remain until
third party vendors had a chance to catch up.

> Support for /proc/scsi/3w-xxxx has been removed from the driver and sysfs support
> has been added. 

Is is possible to have it support both?

> Please download the newer 3dm2 tools from the 3ware software
> "In-Engineering Development" website, or, keep your older kernel and tools.

I am not sure what the "In-Engineering Development" website is but the
"regular" 3ware Web site only offers 3dm2 for the 9000 series
controllers, which I do not have.  I suppose I could just try it though.
  
> If you have any more questions, please contact 3ware/AMCC support.

I do not know what AMCC brings to the table but I have never gotten
answers from 3Ware support.

> -Adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:09 AM
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2: 3ware card info not in /proc/scsi
> 
> 
> I have a 3Ware-7500 series card.  I was trying the 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 kernel
> and discovered that the 3dmd utility was not working.  A little poking
> around revealed that the cause was because the 3Ware directory was not
> in /proc/scsi, even though I have CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y in my config
> file.  The 3dmd utility works fine with mainline 2.6.9-rc2 and it worked
> with the 2.6.8-mm series of kernels.  Those kernels have a 3w-xxxx
> directory in /proc/scsi.
> 
> Thanks.
-- 
Glenn Johnson

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