Thread (15 messages) flat view 15 messages, 4 authors, 2012-07-13
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[PATCH 01/11] lance: remove unnecessary setting of skb->dev

From: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Date: 2012-07-10 00:09:03
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 during ring init.  It is already being set
to the proper value when eth_type_trans is called on packet receive, and the
skb->dev is not referenced anywhere else in the code.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
index a6e2e84..5c72843 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
@@ -873,10 +873,9 @@ lance_init_ring(struct net_device *dev, gfp_t gfp)
 
 		skb = alloc_skb(PKT_BUF_SZ, GFP_DMA | gfp);
 		lp->rx_skbuff[i] = skb;
-		if (skb) {
-			skb->dev = dev;
+		if (skb)
 			rx_buff = skb->data;
-		} else
+		else
 			rx_buff = kmalloc(PKT_BUF_SZ, GFP_DMA | gfp);
 		if (rx_buff == NULL)
 			lp->rx_ring[i].base = 0;
-- 
1.7.9.5
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