1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>alloc_etherdev_mqs</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs"><link rel="up" href="netdev.html#idp1097739572" title="Driver Support"><link rel="prev" href="API-ether-setup.html" title="ether_setup"><link rel="next" href="API-netif-carrier-on.html" title="netif_carrier_on"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">alloc_etherdev_mqs</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-ether-setup.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Driver Support</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-netif-carrier-on.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-alloc-etherdev-mqs"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>alloc_etherdev_mqs &#8212; 
2     Allocates and sets up an Ethernet device
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct net_device * <b class="fsfunc">alloc_etherdev_mqs </b>(</code></td><td>int <var class="pdparam">sizeof_priv</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">txqs</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">rxqs</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098521068"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>sizeof_priv</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     Size of additional driver-private structure to be allocated
5     for this Ethernet device
6    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>txqs</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
7     The number of TX queues this device has.
8    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>rxqs</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
9     The number of RX queues this device has.
10    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098524836"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
11   Fill in the fields of the device structure with Ethernet-generic
12   values. Basically does everything except registering the device.
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15   Constructs a new net device, complete with a private data area of
16   size (sizeof_priv).  A 32-byte (not bit) alignment is enforced for
17   this private data area.
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