Fixed in 2.6.12.2 Haven't looked if 2.4 is affected 2.6 patch: http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ea78729b8dbfc400fe165a57b90a394a7275a54;hp=7b404b3459db1326bbdc7085edb1f58b98da5826 Fixed in genpatches-2.6.12-5
IA64 specific; changing maintainers - ac-sources is marked ~ia64.
ac-sources masked, gentoo-sources done, closing bug as fixed.