From: Roopa Prabhu <redacted>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:21:17 -0700

+/**
+ *	dev_get_proto_down_reason - returns protodown reason
+ *
+ *	@dev: device
+ */
+u32 dev_get_proto_down_reason(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	return dev->proto_down_reason;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_proto_down_reason);

This helper is excessive, please remove it and just dereference the
netdev member directly.

Thank you.