unregister_netdevice(9)

unregister_netdevice9

Remove device from the kernel

Usage

void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device * dev);

Arguments

dev

device

Overview

This function shuts down a device interface and removes it from the kernel tables.

Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. You may want unregister_netdev instead of this.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0

From linux-manual-2.6.32 2.6.32-48squeeze6 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.