The patch "mmc: core: move ->request() call from atomic context", is the reason to why this change is possible. This simplifies the error handling code execution path quite a lot and potentially also fixes some error handling hang problems. Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c | 6 ------ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c index 2bc7b6b..409e876 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c @@ -166,14 +166,8 @@ mmci_request_end(struct mmci_host *host, struct mmc_request *mrq) host->mrq = NULL; host->cmd = NULL; - /* - * Need to drop the host lock here; mmc_request_done may call - * back into the driver... - */ - spin_unlock(&host->lock); pm_runtime_put(mmc_dev(host->mmc)); mmc_request_done(host->mmc, mrq); - spin_lock(&host->lock); } static void mmci_set_mask1(struct mmci_host *host, unsigned int mask) -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html