deleted file mode 100644
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-From 924934df6ca9696888f1b520560c8bc4df1d59eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 10:48:53 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ar71xx-4.9-l2tp-stats
-
----
- ...-stats-counter-overflow-on-32-bit-systems.patch | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++
- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
- create mode 100644 target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.9/fix-l2tp-stats-counter-overflow-on-32-bit-systems.patch
-
-diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.9/fix-l2tp-stats-counter-overflow-on-32-bit-systems.patch b/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.9/fix-l2tp-stats-counter-overflow-on-32-bit-systems.patch
-new file mode 100644
-index 0000000000..4348aea31c
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-4.9/fix-l2tp-stats-counter-overflow-on-32-bit-systems.patch
-@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
-+From 19b1c8733b99f13005f2d8918bce588f0b2556f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-+From: Dominik Heidler <dominik@heidler.eu>
-+Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:37:42 +0100
-+Subject: [PATCH] Fix l2tp stats couter on 32 Bit Systems
-+
-+---
-+ net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | 9 +++++++++
-+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
-+
-+diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
-+index e253c26..a18c2ff 100644
-+--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
-++++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
-+@@ -111,12 +111,21 @@ static struct rtnl_link_stats64 *l2tp_eth_get_stats64(struct net_device *dev,
-+ {
-+ struct l2tp_eth *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
-+
-++ #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
-+ stats->tx_bytes = atomic_long_read(&priv->tx_bytes);
-+ stats->tx_packets = atomic_long_read(&priv->tx_packets);
-+ stats->tx_dropped = atomic_long_read(&priv->tx_dropped);
-+ stats->rx_bytes = atomic_long_read(&priv->rx_bytes);
-+ stats->rx_packets = atomic_long_read(&priv->rx_packets);
-+ stats->rx_errors = atomic_long_read(&priv->rx_errors);
-++ #else
-++ stats->tx_bytes = (unsigned long) atomic_long_read(&priv->tx_bytes);
-++ stats->tx_packets = (unsigned long) atomic_long_read(&priv->tx_packets);
-++ stats->tx_dropped = (unsigned long) atomic_long_read(&priv->tx_dropped);
-++ stats->rx_bytes = (unsigned long) atomic_long_read(&priv->rx_bytes);
-++ stats->rx_packets = (unsigned long) atomic_long_read(&priv->rx_packets);
-++ stats->rx_errors = (unsigned long) atomic_long_read(&priv->rx_errors);
-++ #endif
-+ return stats;
-+ }
-+
-+--
-+2.7.2
-+
---
-2.11.0
-