From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:56:46 -0800 (PST)

Then bond_neigh_setup() has the same bug, doesn't it?

Looking at the bond_main.c changes in:

commit 008298231abbeb91bc7be9e8b078607b816d1a4a
Author: Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu Nov 20 20:14:53 2008 -0800

    netdev: add more functions to netdevice ops

shows that it always behaved that way.