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net: bcmgenet: do not set packet length for RX buffers

Hardware will provide this information as soon as we will start
processing incoming packets, so there is no need to set the RX buffer
length during buffer allocation.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Florian Fainelli 11 years ago
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      drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c

@@ -1408,13 +1408,6 @@ static int bcmgenet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv)
 		if (cb->skb)
 			continue;
 
-		/* set the DMA descriptor length once and for all
-		 * it will only change if we support dynamically sizing
-		 * priv->rx_buf_len, but we do not
-		 */
-		dmadesc_set_length_status(priv, priv->rx_bd_assign_ptr,
-				priv->rx_buf_len << DMA_BUFLENGTH_SHIFT);
-
 		ret = bcmgenet_rx_refill(priv, cb);
 		if (ret)
 			break;