[ Please CC replies to me, thanks! ] Hi, I was looking at your patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/21/132 Very small, which is nice. I was wondering if there were any interest in my own efforts in that direction: http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/patches/blkdev_wakeup.patch which is far more intrusive, and perhaps isn't good kernel programming style, but, on the other hand, is the optimal solution in terms of boot time because it wakes up the boot process right when the device comes on line. Since I saw your patch included, it looks like there is interest in this, and I'd toot my own horn once more before just leaving my patch to the bit rot of the ages... Thanks! -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html