From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:21:37 +1100

> [NET]: Replace skb_pull/skb_postpull_rcsum with skb_pull_rcsum
> 
> We're now starting to have quite a number of places that do skb_pull
> followed immediately by an skb_postpull_rcsum.  We can merge these
> two operations into one function with skb_pull_rcsum.  This makes
> sense since most pull operations on receive skb's need to update
> the checksum.
> 
> I've decided to make this out-of-line since it is fairly big and the
> fast path where hardware checksums are enabled need to call csum_partial
> anyway.
> 
> Since this is a brand new function we get to add an extra check on the
> len argument.  As it is most callers of skb_pull ignore its return value
> which essentially means that there is no check on the len argument.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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