- spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Spidernet: Avoid possible RX chain corruption
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: Spidernet: Avoid possible RX chain corruption
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Delete possible source of chain corruption; the hardware already knows the
location of the tail, and writing it again is likely to mess it up.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/net/spider_net.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption drivers/net/spider_net.c
--- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption
+++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c
@@ -513,7 +513,6 @@ spider_net_alloc_rx_skbs(struct spider_n
 	/* This will allocate the rest of the rx buffers;
 	 * if not, it's business as usual later on. */
 	spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card);
-	spider_net_enable_rxchtails(card);
 	spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card);
 	return 0;
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

git-netdev-all.patch
spidernet-rework-rx-linked-list.patch

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