liquidio: remove unnecessary code
Remove code that's no longer needed. It used to serve a purpose, which was
to fix a link-related bug. For a while now, the NIC firmware has had a
more elegant fix for that bug.
Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
index b8b579d..cc825d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
@@ -2693,13 +2693,7 @@ static int liquidio_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
lio->linfo.link.s.link_up = 0;
lio->link_changes++;
- /* Pause for a moment and wait for Octeon to flush out (to the wire) any
- * egress packets that are in-flight.
- */
- set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(100));
-
- /* Now it should be safe to tell Octeon that nic interface is down. */
+ /* Tell Octeon that nic interface is down. */
send_rx_ctrl_cmd(lio, 0);
if (OCTEON_CN23XX_PF(oct)) {