diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c b/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c
index 1da5ac111499e0c5b0223ab89105e3b9dc68cd7b..79dd965227bcd17b637f5eb8248294c4577ad6a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c
@@ -426,14 +426,6 @@ static int sja1105_init_general_params(struct sja1105_private *priv)
 		.tpid2 = ETH_P_SJA1105,
 	};
 	struct sja1105_table *table;
-	int i, k = 0;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < SJA1105_NUM_PORTS; i++) {
-		if (dsa_is_dsa_port(priv->ds, i))
-			default_general_params.casc_port = i;
-		else if (dsa_is_user_port(priv->ds, i))
-			priv->ports[i].mgmt_slot = k++;
-	}
 
 	table = &priv->static_config.tables[BLK_IDX_GENERAL_PARAMS];
 
@@ -1827,30 +1819,14 @@ static netdev_tx_t sja1105_port_deferred_xmit(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
 					      struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct sja1105_private *priv = ds->priv;
-	struct sja1105_port *sp = &priv->ports[port];
-	int slot = sp->mgmt_slot;
 	struct sk_buff *clone;
 
-	/* The tragic fact about the switch having 4x2 slots for installing
-	 * management routes is that all of them except one are actually
-	 * useless.
-	 * If 2 slots are simultaneously configured for two BPDUs sent to the
-	 * same (multicast) DMAC but on different egress ports, the switch
-	 * would confuse them and redirect first frame it receives on the CPU
-	 * port towards the port configured on the numerically first slot
-	 * (therefore wrong port), then second received frame on second slot
-	 * (also wrong port).
-	 * So for all practical purposes, there needs to be a lock that
-	 * prevents that from happening. The slot used here is utterly useless
-	 * (could have simply been 0 just as fine), but we are doing it
-	 * nonetheless, in case a smarter idea ever comes up in the future.
-	 */
 	mutex_lock(&priv->mgmt_lock);
 
 	/* The clone, if there, was made by dsa_skb_tx_timestamp */
 	clone = DSA_SKB_CB(skb)->clone;
 
-	sja1105_mgmt_xmit(ds, port, slot, skb, !!clone);
+	sja1105_mgmt_xmit(ds, port, 0, skb, !!clone);
 
 	if (!clone)
 		goto out;
diff --git a/include/linux/dsa/sja1105.h b/include/linux/dsa/sja1105.h
index c0b6a603ea8ce8e21e146f2ac2fecf20bf120ee1..317e05b2584b307eeedf990f3da82fdfcedf0505 100644
--- a/include/linux/dsa/sja1105.h
+++ b/include/linux/dsa/sja1105.h
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ struct sja1105_port {
 	struct sja1105_tagger_data *data;
 	struct dsa_port *dp;
 	bool hwts_tx_en;
-	int mgmt_slot;
 };
 
 #endif /* _NET_DSA_SJA1105_H */