From: Ivan Vecera Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 21:10:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: bna: remove unreasonable iocpf timer start X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4918eb1e7cd3b8a41ebf56b5fabaa334139b919f;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git bna: remove unreasonable iocpf timer start Driver starts iocpf timer prior bnad_ioceth_enable() call and this is unreasonable. This piece of code probably originates from Brocade/Qlogic out-of-box driver during initial import into upstream. This driver uses only one timer and queue to implement multiple timers and this timer is started at this place. The upstream driver uses multiple timers instead of this. Cc: Rasesh Mody Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c index 37072a83f9d6..caae6cb2bc1a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c @@ -3701,10 +3701,6 @@ bnad_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, setup_timer(&bnad->bna.ioceth.ioc.sem_timer, bnad_iocpf_sem_timeout, ((unsigned long)bnad)); - /* Now start the timer before calling IOC */ - mod_timer(&bnad->bna.ioceth.ioc.iocpf_timer, - jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(BNA_IOC_TIMER_FREQ)); - /* * Start the chip * If the call back comes with error, we bail out.