This reverts commit f072218cca5b076dd99f3dfa3aaafedfd0023a51. As reported by Aaro this patch causes network problems on MIPS Loongson platform. Therefore revert it. Fixes: f072218cca5b ("r8169: remove not needed call to dma_sync_single_for_device") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>