From: "John W. Linville" <redacted>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:38:01 -0500

Perhaps, but not intentionally.  Hopefully the patch I posted is
sufficient to get things working for non-gawk users...?

It worked here, so I applied it on top
of your pull request and pushed back out
to net-next-2.6

Thanks!