1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>register_netdevice</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-netif-stacked-transfer-operstate.html" title="netif_stacked_transfer_operstate"><link rel="next" href="API-init-dummy-netdev.html" title="init_dummy_netdev"></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">register_netdevice</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-netif-stacked-transfer-operstate.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Driver Support</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-init-dummy-netdev.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-register-netdevice"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>register_netdevice &#8212; 
2     register a network 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">int <b class="fsfunc">register_netdevice </b>(</code></td><td>struct net_device * <var class="pdparam">dev</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1098312972"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dev</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     device to register
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6   Take a completed network device structure and add it to the kernel
7   interfaces. A <code class="constant">NETDEV_REGISTER</code> message is sent to the netdev notifier
8   chain. 0 is returned on success. A negative errno code is returned
9   on a failure to set up the device, or if the name is a duplicate.
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12   Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. You may want
13   <code class="function">register_netdev</code> instead of this.
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15   The locking appears insufficient to guarantee two parallel registers
16   will not get the same name.
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