[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.

Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3923d5133050..d99864662582 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -967,14 +967,6 @@ void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name)
                 request_module("%s", name);
 }
 
-static int default_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb)
-{
-        printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: default_rebuild_header called -- BUG!\n",
-               skb->dev ? skb->dev->name : "NULL!!!");
-        kfree_skb(skb);
-        return 1;
-}
-
 /**
  *      dev_open        - prepare an interface for use.
  *      @dev:   device to open
@@ -3561,14 +3553,6 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
                 }
         }
 
-        /*
-         *      nil rebuild_header routine,
-         *      that should be never called and used as just bug trap.
-         */
-
-        if (!dev->rebuild_header)
-                dev->rebuild_header = default_rebuild_header;
-
         ret = netdev_register_kobject(dev);
         if (ret)
                 goto err_uninit;