From: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

It does

dev = alloc_etherdev(...
private = netdev_priv(dev);
...
dev->priv = private;

which doesn't make much sense (does it?) because this is done in
alloc_netdev() already.

struct net_device *alloc_netdev(...
{
...
        if (sizeof_priv)
                dev->priv = netdev_priv(dev);

This patch removes superfluous code.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN 
drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c~net-tulip-xircom_cbc-remove-superfulous-priv-assignment
 drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c
--- 
a/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c~net-tulip-xircom_cbc-remove-superfulous-priv-assignment
+++ a/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ static int __devinit xircom_probe(struct
        dev->hard_start_xmit = &xircom_start_xmit;
        dev->stop = &xircom_close;
        dev->get_stats = &xircom_get_stats;
-       dev->priv = private;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
        dev->poll_controller = &xircom_poll_controller;
 #endif
_
-
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