diff --git a/include/net/dsa.h b/include/net/dsa.h
index 8b496c7e62ef..64d71968aa91 100644
--- a/include/net/dsa.h
+++ b/include/net/dsa.h
@@ -276,12 +276,6 @@ struct dsa_port {
 
 	struct list_head list;
 
-	/*
-	 * Give the switch driver somewhere to hang its per-port private data
-	 * structures (accessible from the tagger).
-	 */
-	void *priv;
-
 	/*
 	 * Original copy of the master netdev ethtool_ops
 	 */