OK - I'm not taking this patch in its current form. If there are still concerns about this, I would accept a BUG_ON() style patch that consistently checks/clears the value of the field. Alasdair -- 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