On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 12:54 -0400, Seokmann Ju wrote: > This patch fixes incorrect irq data type in the driver which led driver initialization failure in some cases. > The problem was reported by Eric @. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>. [...] > uint32_t unique_id; > - uint8_t irq; > + unsigned int irq; > uint8_t ito; This doesn't look right ... you're altering the size of a packed field within the ioctl body. This will break the ioctl ABI (and thus all tools which use it) unless you employ versioning or some other mechanism to detect the breakage and compensate. I really don't think you want to do this. 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