On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Prabhu nath <gprabhunath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to analyse ethernet and rionet driver. Both the > drives are registered with the kernel through > register_netdev(). > Each driver has their own functions registered such as e100_open(), > rionet_open(). How to trigger this functions from the user space. If I remember correctly "ifconfig eth0 up" will call open and "ifconfig eth0 down" will call close This was when I made some changes to the natsemi driver though, but I think e100 does the same -- John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ