Bug#742619: linux: Please reenable CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS

[Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>]

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  In Linux 2.6 this has been superseded by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