The word "illegal" has a precise dictionary meaning of "prohibited by law". The error messages are therefore incorrect as so far nobody has made SCSI violations a criminal offence. This corrects scsi to match various other subsystems I've slowly been ridding of this. Pedantically-signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-mm1/drivers/scsi/constants.c linux-2.6.24-mm1/drivers/scsi/constants.c --- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-mm1/drivers/scsi/constants.c 2008-02-06 14:14:40.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.24-mm1/drivers/scsi/constants.c 2008-02-06 14:35:16.000000000 +0000 @@ -606,10 +606,10 @@ {0x2001, "Access denied - initiator pending-enrolled"}, {0x2002, "Access denied - no access rights"}, {0x2003, "Access denied - invalid mgmt id key"}, - {0x2004, "Illegal command while in write capable state"}, + {0x2004, "Invalid command while in write capable state"}, {0x2005, "Obsolete"}, - {0x2006, "Illegal command while in explicit address mode"}, - {0x2007, "Illegal command while in implicit address mode"}, + {0x2006, "Invalid command while in explicit address mode"}, + {0x2007, "Invalid command while in implicit address mode"}, {0x2008, "Access denied - enrollment conflict"}, {0x2009, "Access denied - invalid LU identifier"}, {0x200A, "Access denied - invalid proxy token"}, @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ {0x2102, "Invalid address for write"}, {0x2103, "Invalid write crossing layer jump"}, - {0x2200, "Illegal function (use 20 00, 24 00, or 26 00)"}, + {0x2200, "Invalid function (use 20 00, 24 00, or 26 00)"}, {0x2400, "Invalid field in cdb"}, {0x2401, "CDB decryption error"}, @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ {0x2C02, "Invalid combination of windows specified"}, {0x2C03, "Current program area is not empty"}, {0x2C04, "Current program area is empty"}, - {0x2C05, "Illegal power condition request"}, + {0x2C05, "Invalid power condition request"}, {0x2C06, "Persistent prevent conflict"}, {0x2C07, "Previous busy status"}, {0x2C08, "Previous task set full status"}, @@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ {0x6300, "End of user area encountered on this track"}, {0x6301, "Packet does not fit in available space"}, - {0x6400, "Illegal mode for this track"}, + {0x6400, "Invalid mode for this track"}, {0x6401, "Invalid packet size"}, {0x6500, "Voltage fault"}, @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ "Not Ready", /* 2: The addressed target is not ready */ "Medium Error", /* 3: Data error detected on the medium */ "Hardware Error", /* 4: Controller or device failure */ - "Illegal Request", /* 5: Error in request */ + "Invalid Request", /* 5: Error in request */ "Unit Attention", /* 6: Removable medium was changed, or the target has been reset, or ... */ "Data Protect", /* 7: Access to the data is blocked */ - To unsubscribe from this list: 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