cacheable_memzero() is completely overkill for the clearing out the FCB
block which is only 8-bytes.  The compiler should easily optimize this
with memset.  Additionally, cacheable_memzero() only exists on ppc32 and
thus breaks builds of gianfar on ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <ga...@kernel.crashing.org>
---
 drivers/net/gianfar.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
index dae1437..2bb038b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
@@ -1207,7 +1207,8 @@ static int gfar_enet_open(struct net_device *dev)
 static inline struct txfcb *gfar_add_fcb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        struct txfcb *fcb = (struct txfcb *)skb_push(skb, GMAC_FCB_LEN);
-       cacheable_memzero(fcb, GMAC_FCB_LEN);
+
+       memset(fcb, 0, GMAC_FCB_LEN);
 
        return fcb;
 }
-- 
1.6.0.6

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