From bb7bba3d56963be59bc6764c8021290ed55205ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:08:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] veth: Remove useless veth field
The veth private structure contains a netdev pointer refering to its peer.
This field is never used and it is pointless because if we can access,
the veth_priv, that means we already have the netdev which is stored
in veth_priv->dev.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/veth.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 31cd817f33f9..f7ea5bcefc2c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ struct veth_net_stats {
struct veth_priv {
struct net_device *peer;
- struct net_device *dev;
struct list_head list;
struct veth_net_stats *stats;
unsigned ip_summed;
@@ -420,12 +419,10 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net_device *dev,
*/
priv = netdev_priv(dev);
- priv->dev = dev;
priv->peer = peer;
list_add(&priv->list, &veth_list);
priv = netdev_priv(peer);
- priv->dev = peer;
priv->peer = dev;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->list);
return 0;
--
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