Re: v3.12-stable-queue build errors

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From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:35:51 -0500

> Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On 04/25/2015, 04:16 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> Several powerpc build fail with:
>>> 
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c: In function 'gfar_start_xmit':
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c:2146:3: error: implicit declaration of
>>> function 'dev_consume_skb_any' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>>>    dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
>>> 
>>> dev_consume_skb_any() does not exist in 3.12.
>>> 
>>> Introduced by 'gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll'.
>>
>> Eric, David,
>>
>> what action should I take here?
>>
>> 1) take also:
>> commit e6247027e5173c00efb2084d688d06ff835bc3b0
>> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Thu Dec 5 04:45:08 2013 -0800
>>
>>     net: introduce dev_consume_skb_any()
>>
>>
>> 2) drop 'gianfar: Carefully free skbs in functions called by netpoll'
>> from stable-3.12
> 
> This is probably the most reasonable.   KISS.

Yeah just drop the patch.

I didn't even want to submit this series in the first place but
people kept poking me endlessly about it.
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