diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 704d6b35215a..7d92efd44b98 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b35de43b31040828f83046f40fd34ba33146409d
+refs/heads/master: 5ddf83912c8b49a24ab0841f6d77f33781dcf10f
diff --git a/trunk/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c b/trunk/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c
index 642eef3f6336..2e3a7a8128a2 100644
--- a/trunk/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c
+++ b/trunk/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ static int __init testfunc(void)
 	ret = kfifo_in(&test, buf, ret);
 	printk(KERN_INFO "ret: %d\n", ret);
 
+	/* skip first element of the fifo */
+	printk(KERN_INFO "skip 1st element\n");
+	kfifo_skip(&test);
+
 	/* put values into the fifo until is full */
 	for (i = 20; kfifo_put(&test, &i); i++)
 		;