From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: eata irq abuse (was: Re: Linux 2.5.60)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:28:01 -0500
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Ballabio_Dario@emc.com wrote:
> Yes, you are correct. I used spin_unlock in order to release the local
> driver lock
> during the scsi_register call, but I forgot that I had the irq disabled as
> well.
> SO the correct fix is to use spin_unlock_irq/spin_lock_irq around the
> scsi_register call. Same fix applies to the u14-34f driver.


scsi_register may want to sleep, so that is not a fix at all...