netdev - [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove access to legacy register MultiIntr

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Date:   Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:42:57 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove access to legacy register MultiIntr

This code piece was inherited from RTL8139 code, the register at
address 0x5c however has a different meaning on RTL8169 and is unused.
So we can remove this.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index 0be8e5c08..e38bc01eb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ enum rtl_registers {
 	Config3		= 0x54,
 	Config4		= 0x55,
 	Config5		= 0x56,
-	MultiIntr	= 0x5c,
 	PHYAR		= 0x60,
 	PHYstatus	= 0x6c,
 	RxMaxSize	= 0xda,
@@ -5241,10 +5240,7 @@ static void rtl_hw_start(struct  rtl8169_private *tp)
 	RTL_W8(tp, ChipCmd, CmdTxEnb | CmdRxEnb);
 	rtl_init_rxcfg(tp);
 	rtl_set_tx_config_registers(tp);
-
 	rtl_set_rx_mode(tp->dev);
-	/* no early-rx interrupts */
-	RTL_W16(tp, MultiIntr, RTL_R16(tp, MultiIntr) & 0xf000);
 	rtl_irq_enable(tp);
 }
 
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2.22.0