As a fix to the issue initiated by the email thread 'qla2xyz broken in current 
Linus tree',
Following patch should fix the problem.

Thank you,
Seokmann
---
>From d0355c3c61a12ce466c87d8ef953425d2b21725b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seokmann Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:12:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] qla2xxx: fix panic caused by previous patch

- this patch will fix a panic caused by omitted memory allocation for the nvram.


Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
index 8bdc5a2..33d5d80 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
@@ -2154,6 +2154,19 @@ qla2x00_mem_alloc(scsi_qla_host_t *ha)
                        }
                }
 
+               /* Get memory for cached NVRAM */
+               ha->nvram = kzalloc(MAX_NVRAM_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (ha->nvram == NULL) {
+                       /* error */
+                       qla_printk(KERN_WARNING, ha,
+                           "Memory Allocation failed - nvram cache\n");
+
+                       qla2x00_mem_free(ha);
+                       msleep(100);
+
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                /* Done all allocations without any error. */
                status = 0;
 
@@ -2266,6 +2279,7 @@ qla2x00_mem_free(scsi_qla_host_t *ha)
        ha->fw_dump_reading = 0;
 
        vfree(ha->optrom_buffer);
+       kfree(ha->nvram);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.5.2
>From d0355c3c61a12ce466c87d8ef953425d2b21725b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seokmann Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:12:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] qla2xxx: fix panic caused by previous patch

- this patch will fix a panic caused by omitted memory allocation for the nvram.


Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
index 8bdc5a2..33d5d80 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
@@ -2154,6 +2154,19 @@ qla2x00_mem_alloc(scsi_qla_host_t *ha)
                        }
                }
 
+               /* Get memory for cached NVRAM */
+               ha->nvram = kzalloc(MAX_NVRAM_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (ha->nvram == NULL) {
+                       /* error */
+                       qla_printk(KERN_WARNING, ha,
+                           "Memory Allocation failed - nvram cache\n");
+
+                       qla2x00_mem_free(ha);
+                       msleep(100);
+
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                /* Done all allocations without any error. */
                status = 0;
 
@@ -2266,6 +2279,7 @@ qla2x00_mem_free(scsi_qla_host_t *ha)
        ha->fw_dump_reading = 0;
 
        vfree(ha->optrom_buffer);
+       kfree(ha->nvram);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.5.2

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