Re: v3.12-stable-queue build errors

[Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>]

On 04/27/2015, 06:25 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:35:51 -0500
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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.

Now dropped. Thanks.

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