Merge branch '3c59x-patches-and-the-removal-of-an-unused-function'

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior says:

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3c59x patches and the removal of an unused function

The first patch removes an unused function. The goal of remaining three
patches is to get rid of the local_irq_save() usage in the driver which
benefits -RT.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>