diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2b6112c1d642..00d2e13d6d94 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f54d9e8d7f7dd60f26157c12acda3fc94fcd9ab7
+refs/heads/master: 6048126440dcb3ba01316f961465c0ff5a255dd1
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/netdevice.h b/trunk/include/linux/netdevice.h
index bc747e5d7138..03cd7551a7a1 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -699,7 +699,6 @@ extern int		dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 extern void		dev_init(void);
 
-extern int		netdev_nit;
 extern int		netdev_budget;
 
 /* Called by rtnetlink.c:rtnl_unlock() */
diff --git a/trunk/net/core/dev.c b/trunk/net/core/dev.c
index aa8454901719..f1c52cbd6ef7 100644
--- a/trunk/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/trunk/net/core/dev.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ extern void netdev_unregister_sysfs(struct net_device *);
  *	For efficiency
  */
 
-int netdev_nit;
+static int netdev_nit;
 
 /*
  *	Add a protocol ID to the list. Now that the input handler is