diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi.h b/include/scsi/scsi.h
index 1bc6752..84a6d5f 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi.h
@@ -429,4 +429,10 @@
 /* Used to obtain the PCI location of a device */
 #define SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI		0x5387
 
+/* Pull a u32 out of a SCSI message (using BE SCSI conventions) */
+static inline u32 scsi_to_u32(u8 *ptr)
+{
+	return (ptr[0]<<24) + (ptr[1]<<16) + (ptr[2]<<8) + ptr[3];
+}
+
 #endif /* _SCSI_SCSI_H */