Tom, In my opinion this patch you submitted is simply making the code less safe against a buffer overflow without a sufficiently good reason. In future please comment on other patches as replies to those patches. Mixing them together is just confusing. --Shaun -- 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