Renesas SH7757 has 2 Fast and 2 Gigabit Ether controllers, while the 'sh_eth' driver can only reset and initialize TSU of the first controller pair. Shimoda-san tried to solve that adding the 'needs_init' member to the 'struct sh_eth_plat_data', however the platform code still never sets this flag. I think that we can infer this information from the 'devno' variable (set to 'platform_device::id') and reset/init the Ether controller pair only for an even 'devno'; therefore 'sh_eth_plat_data::needs_init' can be removed... Fixes: 150647fb2c31 ("net: sh_eth: change the condition of initialization") Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov --- The patch is against DaveM's 'net.git' repo. drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/sh_eth.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: net/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c =================================================================== --- net.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c +++ net/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c @@ -3254,8 +3254,8 @@ static int sh_eth_drv_probe(struct platf ndev->features = NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER; } - /* initialize first or needed device */ - if (!devno || pd->needs_init) { + /* Need to init only the first port of the two sharing a TSU */ + if (devno % 2 == 0) { if (mdp->cd->chip_reset) mdp->cd->chip_reset(ndev); Index: net/include/linux/sh_eth.h =================================================================== --- net.orig/include/linux/sh_eth.h +++ net/include/linux/sh_eth.h @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ struct sh_eth_plat_data { unsigned char mac_addr[ETH_ALEN]; unsigned no_ether_link:1; unsigned ether_link_active_low:1; - unsigned needs_init:1; }; #endif