@@ -396,18 +396,6 @@ static int cdns_pcie_ep_start(struct pci_epc *epc)
cfg |= BIT(epf->func_no);
cdns_pcie_writel(pcie, CDNS_PCIE_LM_EP_FUNC_CFG, cfg);
- /*
- * The PCIe links are automatically established by the controller
- * once for all at powerup: the software can neither start nor stop
- * those links later at runtime.
- *
- * Then we only have to notify the EP core that our links are already
- * established. However we don't call directly pci_epc_linkup() because
- * we've already locked the epc->lock.
- */
- list_for_each_entry(epf, &epc->pci_epf, list)
- pci_epf_linkup(epf);
-
return 0;
}