Comment 1 for bug 1476724

"The fix in the file sys_linux.c for kernel 3.0 was not until version 1.26"
That is true upstream but Debian fixed the issue in their packages as can be seen in the debian bug reports you mentioned.

"the Raspian distro needs to update to a newer version. (Version 2.1)."
We would only consider such a thing as a last resort. The point of a stable release is to provide a baseline that changes as little as possible.

In any case it looks like in version 1.30 used in jessie and stretch that the code in question has been completely rewritten and no longer checks for a maximum major version. So this only seems to be an issue for wheezy.

I've uploaded version 1.24-3.1+deb7u3+rpi1 which I believe should fix this issue. Can you test it?