Hello,
I have applied the patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/16/88 manually 
to 2.6.7 (also works on 2.6.{8,9}) and have been using it since then.
Attached is a diff against 2.6.9.

Greets
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Malte Schröder
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