these 3 patches are a resend of patches 2-4 (out of 5) that were originally sent 2007-11-05* (patches 1 and 5 were picked up by Kumar to go through powerpc). Jeff, Leo has acked these, please consider for 2.6.24. Thanks, Kim * http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119428688804765&w=1