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Subject[060/145] SCSI: qla1280: Drop host_lock while requesting firmware
2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

commit 2cec802980727f1daa46d8c31b411e083d49d7a2 upstream.

request_firmware() may sleep and it appears to be safe to release the
spinlock here.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/scsi/qla1280.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c
@@ -1640,8 +1640,10 @@ qla1280_load_firmware_pio(struct scsi_ql
uint16_t mb[MAILBOX_REGISTER_COUNT], i;
int err;

+ spin_unlock_irq(ha->host->host_lock);
err = request_firmware(&fw, ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname,
&ha->pdev->dev);
+ spin_lock_irq(ha->host->host_lock);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to load image \"%s\" err %d\n",
ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname, err);
@@ -1699,8 +1701,10 @@ qla1280_load_firmware_dma(struct scsi_ql
return -ENOMEM;
#endif

+ spin_unlock_irq(ha->host->host_lock);
err = request_firmware(&fw, ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname,
&ha->pdev->dev);
+ spin_lock_irq(ha->host->host_lock);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to load image \"%s\" err %d\n",
ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname, err);



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