Hi, On Monday 09 February 2004 04:09, threadhead@web.de wrote: > well in fact, i wanted to use my local network card's start_xmit function. > so i made a function ptr to the memory region where > the function resided. > 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). And then can make use of the function pointer hard_start_xmit in the structure net_device. Hope this helps you.... Regards, Shine Mohamed -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
