From cc1b5463947a009d6303dc6dc436326f34617499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arend van Spriel Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:20:22 +0200 Subject: brcmfmac: remove code and comment for older kernel support In the code of the receive path some code was dealing with how things were done in older kernels. Not really needed for an upstream driver. Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c | 29 ++-------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c index 8c402e7b97eb..8e8975562ec3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c @@ -281,8 +281,6 @@ void brcmf_txflowblock(struct device *dev, bool state) void brcmf_rx_frames(struct device *dev, struct sk_buff_head *skb_list) { - unsigned char *eth; - uint len; struct sk_buff *skb, *pnext; struct brcmf_if *ifp; struct brcmf_bus *bus_if = dev_get_drvdata(dev); @@ -306,33 +304,12 @@ void brcmf_rx_frames(struct device *dev, struct sk_buff_head *skb_list) continue; } - /* Get the protocol, maintain skb around eth_type_trans() - * The main reason for this hack is for the limitation of - * Linux 2.4 where 'eth_type_trans' uses the - * 'net->hard_header_len' - * to perform skb_pull inside vs ETH_HLEN. Since to avoid - * coping of the packet coming from the network stack to add - * BDC, Hardware header etc, during network interface - * registration - * we set the 'net->hard_header_len' to ETH_HLEN + extra space - * required - * for BDC, Hardware header etc. and not just the ETH_HLEN - */ - eth = skb->data; - len = skb->len; - skb->dev = ifp->ndev; skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, skb->dev); if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_MULTICAST) ifp->stats.multicast++; - skb->data = eth; - skb->len = len; - - /* Strip header, count, deliver upward */ - skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN); - /* Process special event packets */ brcmf_fweh_process_skb(drvr, skb); @@ -348,10 +325,8 @@ void brcmf_rx_frames(struct device *dev, struct sk_buff_head *skb_list) netif_rx(skb); else /* If the receive is not processed inside an ISR, - * the softirqd must be woken explicitly to service - * the NET_RX_SOFTIRQ. In 2.6 kernels, this is handled - * by netif_rx_ni(), but in earlier kernels, we need - * to do it manually. + * the softirqd must be woken explicitly to service the + * NET_RX_SOFTIRQ. This is handled by netif_rx_ni(). */ netif_rx_ni(skb); } -- cgit v1.2.3