ixgbe: cleanup namespace complaint by removing little used function

We had a support function that just walked a few pointers to get
from the ixgbe_hw struct to the netdev pointer.  This was causing
a namespace warning so I removed it and just reference the pointers
directly.

Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 34fdda21dba3..4a6bcb66d2a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -7707,16 +7707,6 @@ static int ixgbe_notify_dca(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long event,
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA */
 
-/**
- * ixgbe_get_hw_dev return device
- * used by hardware layer to print debugging information
- **/
-struct net_device *ixgbe_get_hw_dev(struct ixgbe_hw *hw)
-{
-        struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter = hw->back;
-        return adapter->netdev;
-}
-
 module_exit(ixgbe_exit_module);
 
 /* ixgbe_main.c */