> Well, I took the kernel and it doesn't work.
> While booting it stops at 
> 
> scsibus 0: waiting 2 sec oncs for devices to settle...
> 
> But this has been normal behaviour for several weeks or longer, don't
> know as I turned off SCSI support then, it didn't work anyway.
> So this probably is no problem of these patches, but of something else.
> 
> This is a fresh 1.5.1_BETA2 on a RPC with SA110 and Connect32.
> 
> Maybe someone else has a different result ?
> 
> But thanks for your work anyway !

This sounds suspiciously like what happend to the asc driver when device 
probing on the scsi bus was deferred until interrupts were enabled.  But 
that was months ago.  When is the last time that you can confirm the 
driver as working?