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>
---
drivers/net/veth.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
Index: net-2.6/drivers/net/veth.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.orig/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ net-2.6/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_devic
*/
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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