On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:39 -0700, Mark Haverkamp wrote: > kfree has the possibility of sleeping. It is generally considered poor > manners to hold on to a lock with the possibility of a system call > induced sleep. Erm, this isn't true ... we'd have no end of driver issues if kfree could block. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html