Christoph, > I think what Martin wants (or at least what I'd want him to want) is > to define a few REQ_* bits that mirror the RWF bits, use that to > transfer the information down the stack, and then only translate it > to stream ids in the driver. Yup. If we have enough space in the existing flags that's perfect (I lost count after your op/flag shuffle). -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering