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authorTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2017-01-18 17:45:01 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-18 17:22:49 -0500
commit4a7c972644c1151f6dd34ff4b5f7eacb239e22ee (patch)
tree5a712df870eac9710464921125246365c542521a /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent9520ed8fb8410dcb6babf751561a08f73ca03812 (diff)
net: Remove usage of net_device last_rx member
The network stack no longer uses the last_rx member of struct net_device since the bonding driver switched to use its own private last_rx in commit 9f242738376d ("bonding: use last_arp_rx in slave_last_rx()"). However, some drivers still (ab)use the field for their own purposes and some driver just update it without actually using it. Previously, there was an accompanying comment for the last_rx member added in commit 4dc89133f49b ("net: add a comment on netdev->last_rx") which asked drivers not to update is, unless really needed. However, this commend was removed in commit f8ff080dacec ("bonding: remove useless updating of slave->dev->last_rx"), so some drivers added later on still did update last_rx. Remove all usage of last_rx and switch three drivers (sky2, atp and smc91c92_cs) which actually read and write it to use their own private copy in netdev_priv. Compile-tested with allyesconfig and allmodconfig on x86 and arm. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Cc: Mirko Lindner <mlindner@marvell.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 97ae0ac513ee..3868c32d98af 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1551,7 +1551,6 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
* @ax25_ptr: AX.25 specific data
* @ieee80211_ptr: IEEE 802.11 specific data, assign before registering
*
- * @last_rx: Time of last Rx
* @dev_addr: Hw address (before bcast,
* because most packets are unicast)
*
@@ -1777,8 +1776,6 @@ struct net_device {
/*
* Cache lines mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans())
*/
- unsigned long last_rx;
-
/* Interface address info used in eth_type_trans() */
unsigned char *dev_addr;