Effectively what's going on here is there's a main loop and an identical
one below with a single assignment. Simpler to move it up.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c
index 067a012a5799..3d4c3d8698e2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/ag71xx.c
@@ -1646,6 +1646,7 @@ static int ag71xx_rx_packets(struct ag71xx *ag, int limit)
 
 		skb->dev = ndev;
 		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
+		skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, ndev);
 		list_add_tail(&skb->list, &rx_list);
 
 next:
@@ -1657,8 +1658,6 @@ static int ag71xx_rx_packets(struct ag71xx *ag, int limit)
 
 	ag71xx_ring_rx_refill(ag);
 
-	list_for_each_entry(skb, &rx_list, list)
-		skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, ndev);
 	netif_receive_skb_list(&rx_list);
 
 	netif_dbg(ag, rx_status, ndev, "rx finish, curr=%u, dirty=%u, done=%d\n",
-- 
2.46.2