Avoid the need for a global 4k buffer by allocating no response buffer for commands that don't return data, a small on-stack one for the ATAPI fixup, or a kmalloced one for all other emulated commands. -- 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