From 6fe729e20fa8f95e4c61b969c452a7088ffe11a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Douglas <38992547+matthewdouglas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:31:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix regression with CPU/disk offloading for accelerate + int8

---
 bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py b/bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py
index c36fb68a6..f482ae6d3 100644
--- a/bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ def to(self, *args, **kwargs):
         if is_quantized:
             new_param.CB = new_param.data
 
-            if self.SCB is not None and device is not None:
+            if device is not None and self.SCB is not None and self.SCB.device.type != "meta":
                 new_param.SCB = self.SCB.to(device)
 
         return new_param