* sun (sun@phear.org) wrote: > Hi! > I know I'm probably being lazy or ignorant. But I'm a kernelnewbie. > I've been looking at some sourcecode, and I was wondering why have > a member of in_device, ifa_list, which is a linked list of network > parameters. > I thought at first they might be aliases, but don't aliases get their > own net_device structure etc? The aliases are hung off the ifa_list. So you have: "eth0" -> net_device net_device -> in_device (via the ip_ptr) in_device -> alias list by walking the ifa_list walking the ifa_list might look like (from the ifa_label): "eth0" -> "eth0:0" -> "eth0:1" cheers, -chris -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
