Thread (15 messages) flat view 15 messages, 4 authors, 2012-07-13
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[PATCH 07/11] qlge: remove unnecessary setting of skb->dev

From: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Date: 2012-07-10 00:09:34
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, 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: Anirban Chakraborty <redacted>
Cc: Jitendra Kalsaria <redacted>
Cc: Ron Mercer <redacted>
Cc: linux-driver@qlogic.com
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
index 3c3499d..ca427eb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -1619,7 +1619,6 @@ static void ql_process_mac_rx_skb(struct ql_adapter *qdev,
 	}
 
 	prefetch(skb->data);
-	skb->dev = ndev;
 	if (ib_mac_rsp->flags1 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_M_MASK) {
 		netif_printk(qdev, rx_status, KERN_DEBUG, qdev->ndev,
 			     "%s Multicast.\n",
@@ -1934,7 +1933,6 @@ static void ql_process_mac_split_rx_intr(struct ql_adapter *qdev,
 	}
 
 	prefetch(skb->data);
-	skb->dev = ndev;
 	if (ib_mac_rsp->flags1 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_M_MASK) {
 		netif_printk(qdev, rx_status, KERN_DEBUG, qdev->ndev, "%s Multicast.\n",
 			     (ib_mac_rsp->flags1 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_M_MASK) ==
-- 
1.7.9.5
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