> No, the pointers are all held in place. Even if everyone else releases > their references, the commmand still contains a reference to the device > (which holds it from being released) and the device likewise contains a > reference to the host. Ok, then I think it's good to go as far as locking is concerned. Thanks for the explanation. Regarding the CISS vs. CCISS in the config variable, is that going to hold up this patch? I can make a patch to change that, but it's not really related to this patch, this patch just happens to use that config variable. -- steve - : 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