On Monday 09 February 2004 13:42, Kiran Kumar wrote: > --- 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. Now only I came to know abt this function... Thanks for the info... Regards, Shine Mohamed -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
