--- 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. ===== Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
