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From: "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 06:16:46 +0000

> Looking at my alternatives for solving this, I can't see any 'good'
> options - it seems mightily unorthodox to modify net_device_ops,
> I.e., add/remove an NDO function-pointer based on some device
> property, and having multiple ops declared for the sake of a single
> feature seems unscalable.

Multiple ops is the only thing that works right now.