an issue with crash(8) perhaps?

[David Magda <David.Magda@oicr.on.ca>]

It appears that it may be an issue with the "crash" package. From the 
release notes:

5.1.6 - Fixed several typos in the updated crash.8 man page.
         (bob.montgomery@hp.com)
[...]
      - Fix to support Linux 3.x version number change.  Without the patch,
        the crash session fails with kernel version 3.0 and later, 
displaying
        the message "WARNING: kernel version inconsistency between vmlinux
        and [live memory or dumpfile]", followed by the fatal error 
message
        "crash: incompatible arguments: vmlinux is not SMP -- [live 
system or
        dumpfile] is SMP".
        (sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com, anderson@redhat.com)

http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html

The upstream bug report is at:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2011-June/thread.html#00000
http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash_patches/5.1.5-to-5.1.6.patch

If it is the "crash", can we either get:
(a) the patch added to squeeze package, and/or
(b) wheezy crash backported.