Re: v3.12-stable-queue build errors

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:35:51AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> 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@google.com>
> > 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.
> 
Greg dropped the patch from 3.10. 

Guenter