Bart, > It would help if you could explain why you are so strongly opposed > against keeping BIDI support in the kernel. My preference is to remove it because there is simply no good use case for it. The fact that this peculiar command was once defined and has since been obsoleted doesn't imply we should go out of our ways to support it. There's all sorts of other cruft defined by T10 that nobody uses and never will. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering