Hi Badari, When you can spare a few cycles, can you sanity check my adaptation of your patch? If you go to: http://people.redhat.com/anderson/pbadari You'll find a "crash.tar.gz" file. Go into any recent crash build directory, un-tar it on top of whatever's there, and do a make. (It's quicker that rebuilding the whole thing...) It works find on RHEL3 and RHEL4, but I just want make absolutely sure it still works OK on your test kernel. I didn't change any functionality, but I did move a few things around. And many thanks again... Dave