2.6.26 kernel does not get along with Dell 760 Hardware

[wdc]

Symptom:

Boot Intrepid, or a variety of 2.6.26-based systems and see infinite spewage of errors.

This is apparently a recently discovered bug with a trivial patch.
See:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512617

The patch being:

 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=1de5b0854623d30d01d72cd4ea323eb5f39d1f16

We should probably make sure this patch is in Jaunty, and gets an SRU into Intrepid, and possibly Hardy. The lack of this patch renders the system essentially unusable. When you reboot as the final phase of the install it looks like your system is hung with constant and un-interruptable spew. The seeming only way to get round it is to power cycle the machine.

This spewage seems to run in the background of a seemingly fine system causing tremendous slowness, and filling up the disk with log output.

So this is a biggie folks!