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Message-Id: <1341878975-10577-3-git-send-email-jdmason@kudzu.us>
Date:	Mon,  9 Jul 2012 17:09:27 -0700
From:	Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>,
	Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] netxen: remove unnecessary setting of skb->dev

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@...zu.us>
Cc: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>
Cc: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
---
 .../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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