Actually, thinking about this some more... would it be cleaner to more
the knowledge about bonding out of the ipoib driver?  in other words,
export something similar to

 > +static int ipoib_slave_detach(struct net_device *dev)
 > +{
 > +    int ret = 0;
 > +    if (dev->flags & IFF_SLAVE) {
 > +            dev->priv_flags |= IFF_SLAVE_DETACH;
 > +            rtnl_lock();
 > +            ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGE, dev);
 > +            rtnl_unlock();
 > +    }
 > +    return ret;
 > +}

for drivers to use, rather than putting use of IFF_SLAVE and
IFF_SLAVE_DETACH outside of the bonding driver.

Also it seems this function could return void, since both call sites
ignore the return value and I don't see anything sensible that IPoIB
could do with the notifier chain return value anyway.

 - R.
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