Re: 2.6.x kernels - use of exported symbols/functions

[Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Shine Mohamed <shinemohamed_j@naturesoft.net>
wrote:
> All the network devices are strored in a linked list
> with the head node dev_base. 
> 
> dev_base is a global variable of type struct
> net_device *
> and should be accessed using a read/write lock,
> dev_base_lock.
> (If in uniprocessor machine lock doesn't matter).
> 
> Parsing through the list u can find the appropriate
> network
> device ( one way is identifying by the name such
> eth0,.. 
> in the name field).

  There is a dev_get_by_name() function which does
this.


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Regards,
Kiran Kumar Immidi

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