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[PATCH 03/11] netxen: remove unnecessary setting of skb->dev

From: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Date: 2012-07-10 00:09:13
Subsystem: networking drivers, netxen (1/10) gbe support, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Manish Chopra, Rahul Verma, Linus Torvalds

skb->dev is being unnecessarily set by the driver on packet recieve.
eth_type_trans already sets skb->dev to the proper value and it is not
referenced anywhere else in the dirver, thus making its setting unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Cc: Sony Chacko <redacted>
Cc: Rajesh Borundia <redacted>
---
 .../net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c   |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
index 8694124..b2c1b676 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
@@ -1532,8 +1532,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *netxen_process_rxbuf(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
 	} else
 		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
 
-	skb->dev = adapter->netdev;
-
 	buffer->skb = NULL;
 no_skb:
 	buffer->state = NETXEN_BUFFER_FREE;
-- 
1.7.9.5
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