Re: [net] ixgbe: fix registration order of driver and DCA nofitication

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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:11:12 -0700

> On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 19:50 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> ixgbe_notify_dca cannot be called before driver registration
>> because it expects driver's klist_devices to be allocated and
>> initialized. While on it make sure debugfs files are removed
>> when registration fails.
> 
> Why not take out a bunch of these #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS at
> the same time?  Something like:

Because it's a bug fix targetted at 'net' and thus must be a minimal
fix rather than something targetted at 'net-next' where we could do
cleanups like that.
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