Subject: [PATCH 1/1] netcore: minor cleanup for register_netdevice

From: FNST-Wang Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:27:24 +0800

- minor logic cleanup

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <[email-masked]>

diff -Nurp linux-2.6.22.4.org/net/core/dev.c  linux-2.6.22.4/net/core/dev.c
--- linux-2.6.22.4.org/net/core/dev.c    2007-08-22 15:33:40.000000000 
+0800
+++ linux-2.6.22.4/net/core/dev.c    2007-09-06 13:27:35.000000000 +0800
@@ -3075,8 +3075,6 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device
    dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;
    spin_lock_init(&dev->ingress_lock);

-    dev->iflink = -1;
-
    /* Init, if this function is available */
    if (dev->init) {
        ret = dev->init(dev);
@@ -3093,8 +3091,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device
    }

    dev->ifindex = dev_new_index();
-    if (dev->iflink == -1)
-        dev->iflink = dev->ifindex;
+    dev->iflink = dev->ifindex;

    /* Check for existence of name */
    head = dev_name_hash(dev->name);