Hi Bart, here is Linus' reworked ide-floppy reduce-stack-usage patch. It has been tested here on current pata tree with your latest 3 patches adding the per-device request queue locks. Along with that are 2 small cleanups. drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 8 +++++ drivers/ide/ide-cd.h | 8 ----- drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c | 26 +++++++++--------- drivers/ide/ide-floppy_ioctl.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------- include/linux/ide.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 5 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html