Akemi Yagi wrote:

> A test kernel with a patch that seemingly fixes the issue (at least in
> my test run) has been made available.  The details are in the upstream
> bugzilla filed by Johnny above (Comment #30).
>
> It would be great if other people give it a try and report the result
> to that bugzilla.

Works for me. Thanks for following up on this.

Off to make a bugzilla comment now. It's distressing to see this
closed as a low priority "duplicate" bug, with no resolution until
possibly even RHEL 5.3 (if I read comment #27 correctly).