I've found that the problem was backported into the stable stream since
I cannot reproduce the issue with 2.6.26 but I can with 2.6.26.5. This
is quite useful since there are only 3 relevant looking changesets in
that range. I will bisect between these before confirming the culprit on
mainline.
I've had a private reply from someone who is seeing the same issue with
2.6.26.5 against a server running 2.6.18 (Debian Etch) which I think
largely discounts the server from being at fault.
Ian.
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Ian Campbell
Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end.