rtnetlink: remove slave_validate callback

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Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index 21837ca68ecc..6520993ff449 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
@@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ struct rtnl_link_ops {
 
         int                     slave_maxtype;
         const struct nla_policy *slave_policy;
-        int                     (*slave_validate)(struct nlattr *tb[],
-                                                  struct nlattr *data[],
-                                                  struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
         int                     (*slave_changelink)(struct net_device *dev,
                                                     struct net_device *slave_dev,
                                                     struct nlattr *tb[],
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 3961f87cdc76..b63c5759641f 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -2631,12 +2631,6 @@ replay:
                                         return err;
                                 slave_data = slave_attr;
                         }
-                        if (m_ops->slave_validate) {
-                                err = m_ops->slave_validate(tb, slave_data,
-                                                            extack);
-                                if (err < 0)
-                                        return err;
-                        }
                 }
 
                 if (dev) {