> For good reasons there are no abstract interface specifications in Linux kernel. > I was just wondering if it is good to leave concrete attributes which are not > (yet?) reported at random. It is obviously working okay today for your > environment. > But memset zero everything you don't care about today might be just safe to > detect an unexpected interpretation of those fields in the future? > > > Thanks, > Bernard. Thank you for the pointer. I'm making the changes as you suggested. Long