Patrick McHardy [off-list ref] writes:

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

quoted

+static struct rtnl_link_ops bond_link_ops __read_mostly = {
+	.kind		= "bond",
+	.setup		= bond_setup,
+	.validate	= bond_validate,
+};

One more thing - you need to initialize .priv_size here so
the devices created through rtnl_link have enough private
room allocated.

Wow and the code works when I test it without that ouch!

As for rtnl_link_register it always succeeds so let's just
remove the return code and call it good.

Eric