/* reschedule QH iff another request is queued */
                if (!list_empty (&qh->qtd_list)
                                && HC_IS_RUNNING (hcd->state)) {
-                       int schedule_status;
-
-                       schedule_status = qh_schedule (ehci, qh);
-                       spin_unlock_irqrestore (&ehci->lock, flags);
-
-                       if (schedule_status != 0) {
-                               // shouldn't happen often, but ...
-                               // FIXME kill those tds' urbs
-                               err ("can't reschedule qh %p, err %d",
-                                       qh, schedule_status);
-                       }
-                       return status;
+                       rc = qh_schedule(ehci, qh);
+
+                       /* An error here likely indicates handshake failure
+                        * or no space left in the schedule.  Neither fault
+                        * should happen often ...
+                        *
+                        * FIXME kill the now-dysfunctional queued urbs
+                        */
+                       if (rc != 0)
+                               ehci_err(ehci,
+                                       "can't reschedule qh %p, err %d",
+                                       qh, rc);
                }
                break;