netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] qede: Add driver support for PTP.

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:55:32 +0000
From:   "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        'Richard Cochran' <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        "Kalluru, Sudarsana" <Sudarsana.Kalluru@...ium.com>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] qede: Add driver support for PTP.

> How many different implementations of 'ops->adjfreq' are there?
> If there is only one you don't need an indirect call.

There's only one implementation. But qed publishes its functions to
qede [and other modules] by structs of operations and not by
exporting symbols directly, and I don't see a reason to change that
paradigm here.
[Although I might be mistaken about that last bit]