net: trans_start cleanups

Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it
in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss
(on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler.

Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/b44.c b/drivers/net/b44.c
index 458272196997..293f9c16e786 100644
--- a/drivers/net/b44.c
+++ b/drivers/net/b44.c
@@ -1014,8 +1014,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t b44_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
         if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(bp) < 1)
                 netif_stop_queue(dev);
 
-        dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-
 out_unlock:
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);