On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:40:40AM -0700, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if people care about /proc/scsi, but here is a patch so you
> can cat /proc/scsi/scsi when you have a large number of scsi devices.  I
> have over 4000 devices configured and when I would cat /proc/scsi/scsi I
> would see a memory allocation error.  I instead used the seq_file
> iterator to display the devices.  The patch is a little brute force, but
> it only took about 2.5 seconds to display 4000 devices.

We had this before, and the answer is: don't use /proc/scsi if you have
lots of device.  Don't even enable the config option.

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