netdev - Re: [net 4/8] ixgbe: fix namespace issues when FCoE is not enabled

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Date:	Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:46:54 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net 4/8] ixgbe: fix namespace issues when FCoE is not enabled

On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 14:20 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2012 04:20:17 -0800
> 
> > Several functions are made external but are not used externally when
> > FCoE/DCB is not enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> > Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@...el.com>
> 
> Do not crap up the *.c files with ifdefs like this.
> 
> Better to export these operations via an ops structure of
> some kind, rather than doing stuff like this.
> 
> I'm not applying this series if it contains stuff like
> this.

I apologize Dave, that was my mistake.  I will drop this patch from the
series and find a better way to resolve the namespace errors.

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