On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > If you want to see for yourself, it's fs/block_dev.c:do_open(). Thanks for the pointer. I see the subroutine is not exactly loaded with comments... > > If you can suggest an alternative approach, I'll be glad to change the > > patch. > > Well, since this is the 7th patch of an eight patch series, I don't > really have the context for that. However, I assume it's all on the > linux-usb list? If so, I'll add it to my list of things to look at. The patches before it probably won't give you any additional useful context. The following patch might; that's the one affecting usb-storage. Alan Stern -- 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