Re: [PATCH] (1/5) replay netdev notifier events on registration

[chas williams (contractor) <chas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20040115004255.62dc8b95.davem@xxxxxxxxxx>,"David S. Miller" writes:
>2) Add a type cookie or similar to the generic netdev, only devices
>   which need to identify themselves in these generic kind of cases
>   add identifier values there, so currently that would be MPOA and
>   QETH, then the code goes:
>
>       if (dev->type_cookie == NETDEV_TYPE_MPOA)
>               return NOTIFY_DONE;

while just as ugly it would probably suffice to check dev->start_xmit()
to make sure its the routine you know it should be.  since the number 
of drivers that need to do this seems small this might be simpler.