netdev - Re: [PATCH] netdev/phy: Make get_phy_id() static and quit EXPORTing it.

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 00:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	ddaney.cavm@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, david.daney@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev/phy: Make get_phy_id() static and quit
 EXPORTing it.

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:32:08 -0400

> [[PATCH] netdev/phy: Make get_phy_id() static and quit EXPORTing it.] On 15/05/2012 (Tue 13:46) David Daney wrote:
> 
>> From: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
>> 
>> This function is only referenced from within phy_device.c, so there is
>> no reason to export it.  In fact, we can make it static.
> 
> I did a bit of data mining to remind myself why it was exported.  Back
> in a01b3d766c (v2.6.26) gianfar_mii was using it.  That then got merged
> into fsl_pq_mdio.c and gianfar_mii was deleted.  Then finally in commit
> 28d8ea2d568 (v3.2) the one instance of code that was using it got
> removed.  So, I think this should be OK (but for net-next, though).
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied.
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