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>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
index 66ed045a8cf0..90cceb4a6317 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #define _IXGBE_COMMON_H_
 
 #include "ixgbe_type.h"
+#include "ixgbe.h"
 
 u32 ixgbe_get_pcie_msix_count_generic(struct ixgbe_hw *hw);
 s32 ixgbe_init_ops_generic(struct ixgbe_hw *hw);
@@ -110,9 +111,8 @@ void ixgbe_set_vlan_anti_spoofing(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, bool enable, int vf);
 
 #define IXGBE_WRITE_FLUSH(a) IXGBE_READ_REG(a, IXGBE_STATUS)
 
-extern struct net_device *ixgbe_get_hw_dev(struct ixgbe_hw *hw);
 #define hw_dbg(hw, format, arg...) \
-        netdev_dbg(ixgbe_get_hw_dev(hw), format, ##arg)
+        netdev_dbg(((struct ixgbe_adapter *)(hw->back))->netdev, format, ##arg)
 #define e_dev_info(format, arg...) \
         dev_info(&adapter->pdev->dev, format, ## arg)
 #define e_dev_warn(format, arg...) \
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 */