Short packet padding added to the driver is only necessary when using
Broadcom tags, but since this is now taken care of net/dsa/tag_brcm.c,
we are guaranteed being given correctly padded packets.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
index 087f01b4dc3a..f15a8fc6dfc9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
@@ -1216,18 +1216,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t bcm_sysport_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
goto out;
}
- /* The Ethernet switch we are interfaced with needs packets to be at
- * least 64 bytes (including FCS) otherwise they will be discarded when
- * they enter the switch port logic. When Broadcom tags are enabled, we
- * need to make sure that packets are at least 68 bytes
- * (including FCS and tag) because the length verification is done after
- * the Broadcom tag is stripped off the ingress packet.
- */
- if (skb_put_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN + ENET_BRCM_TAG_LEN)) {
- ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
- goto out;
- }
-
/* Insert TSB and checksum infos */
if (priv->tsb_en) {
skb = bcm_sysport_insert_tsb(skb, dev);
--
2.14.1
