init_dummy_netdev(9)

init_dummy_netdev9

Init a dummy network device for napi

Usage

int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device * dev);

Arguments

dev

device to init

Overview

This takes a network device structure and initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.