Tampering with the settings has to be done under the host lock ... slave_alloc isn't called under any lock, so this has to be done explicitly. James --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c @@ -645,7 +645,9 @@ ahc_linux_slave_alloc(struct scsi_device struct ahc_linux_target *targ; struct scsi_target *starget = device->sdev_target; struct ahc_linux_device *dev; - u_int target_offset; + unsigned int target_offset; + unsigned long flags; + int retval = -ENOMEM; target_offset = starget->id; if (starget->channel != 0) @@ -654,12 +656,14 @@ ahc_linux_slave_alloc(struct scsi_device ahc = *((struct ahc_softc **)device->host->hostdata); if (bootverbose) printf("%s: Slave Alloc %d\n", ahc_name(ahc), device->id); + ahc_lock(ahc, &flags); targ = ahc->platform_data->targets[target_offset]; if (targ == NULL) { targ = ahc_linux_alloc_target(ahc, starget->channel, starget->id); struct seeprom_config *sc = ahc->seep_config; if (targ == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; + goto out; + if (sc) { unsigned short scsirate; struct ahc_devinfo devinfo; @@ -701,10 +705,13 @@ ahc_linux_slave_alloc(struct scsi_device if (dev == NULL) { dev = ahc_linux_alloc_device(ahc, targ, device->lun); if (dev == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; + goto out; } + retval = 0; - return 0; + out: + ahc_unlock(ahc, &flags); + return retval; } static int - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html