[PATCH] ips driver 4/6
This is by far the biggest patch. It is a rewrite of the driver's horrid locking. In addition to the host_lock, the driver used to have 4 other locks per adapter! It had a redundant ha_lock and a lock for each of 3 queues. In a few places it also played with atomic bit setting. And almost all of it was useless as the host_lock was already held. This patch cleans up this locking nightmare. The driver now uses the host_lock exclusively. Only a few places needed to add calls to lock the host_lock. Most of this patch is deletion of useless extra locking.
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