I finally got around to test this - and yes, 2.6.25-rc6 with this patch
applied make the hangs go away. There are other problems now[0], but they
don't seem to be related, AFAICT.
Thank you!
Christian.
[0] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/408
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