> With the attached patch, you can use ->flags for the two new flags, and > you can set those bits in the driver where you set the other > ATA_FLAG_xxx bits. Its half way but I realised there is another reason that doesn't work (and indeed why the device private flags are asking for trouble) What are the locking sematics for ap->flags ? -- 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