NICs on IBM S390 systems need some special care.
Created attachment 794 [details] The required S390 #if ... I don't know the author of this fix. But this was also included in different Linux on S390 and zSeries distributions.
Jim, could you take a look at this when you get a chance? Thanks.
Committed a similar changeset to 3.0 in rev 5163
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.