Comment 8 for bug 756894

I agree, the patch looks reasonable. Though it would be much preferable to kindly ask the patch author about the upstream submission, and when there is a commit in the upstream tree, think about SRUing it into (in fact when asking, it would be best if the upstream submission had a cc: <email address hidden> in the signed-off-by area to mark it as a fix for the 2.6.38.y stable tree). That way it won't become a potential problem in 11.10 again.