sfc: stop setting dev_port

Setting dev_port changes the device names allocated by systemd. Any devices with a dev_port >0 will (in default distro configurations) have a suffix of "d<port-number>" appended. This is not something done by other drivers, and causes confusion for users. Fixes: 8be4132 ("sfc: Add code to export port_num in netdev->dev_port") Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
olifre · Jan 10, 2017 · 0d71a84 · 0d71a84
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
@@ -547,7 +547,6 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(primary_flag, 0444, efx_ef10_show_primary_flag, NULL);
 static int efx_ef10_probe(struct efx_nic *efx)
 {
 	struct efx_ef10_nic_data *nic_data;
-	struct net_device *net_dev = efx->net_dev;
 	int i, rc;
 
 	/* We can have one VI for each 8K region.  However, until we
@@ -637,7 +636,6 @@ static int efx_ef10_probe(struct efx_nic *efx)
 	if (rc < 0)
 		goto fail5;
 	efx->port_num = rc;
-	net_dev->dev_port = rc;
 
 	rc = efx->type->get_mac_address(efx, efx->net_dev->perm_addr);
 	if (rc)