netdev - Re: [PATCH] netdev: don't always reset iflink when registering

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Message-Id: <20100322.202022.139110361.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:20:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Thomas.Goff@...ing.com
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: don't always reset iflink when registering

From: "Goff, Thomas" <Thomas.Goff@...ing.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:06:46 -0700

> So maybe it makes more sense to change these if that's more consistent
> with other cases.

Yes, it does.  The canonical place to set ->iflink by hand
is the ->ndo_init() method of the device.
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