From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:35:05 +0200

> We can also use ifindex and hold a reference. We won't access input_dev
> too often so a __dev_get_by_ifindex() won't be too expensive given the
> number of interfaces is not too big but that's another issue.

Since the reference is very local in each instance we actually use it,
we can elide the refcounting overhead most of the time perhaps.
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