> Maybe you are thinking of the patches that I posted a
> while ago that included an update to some locking changes for
> a bunch of the scsi drivers. Alan spoke up and said that
> I should not apply the NCR53C80 part of those patches because
> I had made a mistake and becuase there was a newer driver in 2.4,
Someone else did exactly the same thing you did, and somehow
Linus picked it up that time. Anyway, its backed out now,
so its a moot point.
> Maybe you were thinking of some other event when you
> said "I believe changes to NCR53c80 were recently reverted back because
> these 'fixes' lead to massive data corruption." If so, I would be
> interested in hearing about it.
The data corruption issue was the lack of fixed locking and
assorted fixes that Alan did after the 2.4/2.5 split.
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