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From: "Goff, Thomas" <Thomas.Goff@boeing.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.