Chapter 10. Network device support

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Driver Support
Synchronous PPP

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dev_add_pack - add packet handler
__dev_remove_pack - remove packet handler
dev_remove_pack - remove packet handler
netdev_boot_setup_check - check boot time settings
__dev_get_by_name - find a device by its name
dev_get_by_name - find a device by its name
__dev_get_by_index - find a device by its ifindex
dev_get_by_index - find a device by its ifindex
dev_getbyhwaddr - find a device by its hardware address
dev_get_by_flags - find any device with given flags
dev_valid_name - check if name is okay for network device
dev_alloc_name - allocate a name for a device
netdev_features_change - device changes features
netdev_state_change - device changes state
dev_load - load a network module
dev_open - prepare an interface for use.
dev_close - shutdown an interface.
register_netdevice_notifier - register a network notifier block
unregister_netdevice_notifier - unregister a network notifier block
skb_gso_segment - Perform segmentation on skb.
dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
netif_rx - post buffer to the network code
register_gifconf - register a SIOCGIF handler
netdev_set_master - set up master/slave pair
dev_set_promiscuity - update promiscuity count on a device
dev_set_allmulti - update allmulti count on a device
dev_unicast_delete - Release secondary unicast address.
dev_unicast_add - add a secondary unicast address
register_netdevice - register a network device
register_netdev - register a network device
alloc_netdev_mq - allocate network device
free_netdev - free network device
unregister_netdevice - remove device from the kernel
unregister_netdev - remove device from the kernel
eth_type_trans - determine the packet's protocol ID.
ether_setup - setup Ethernet network device
alloc_etherdev_mq - Allocates and sets up an Ethernet device
is_zero_ether_addr - Determine if give Ethernet address is all zeros.
is_multicast_ether_addr - Determine if the Ethernet address is a multicast.
is_local_ether_addr - Determine if the Ethernet address is locally-assigned
is_broadcast_ether_addr - Determine if the Ethernet address is broadcast
is_valid_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is valid
random_ether_addr - Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
compare_ether_addr - Compare two Ethernet addresses
phy_print_status - Convenience function to print out the current phy status
phy_read - Convenience function for reading a given PHY register
phy_write - Convenience function for writing a given PHY register
phy_sanitize_settings - make sure the PHY is set to supported speed and duplex
phy_ethtool_sset - generic ethtool sset function, handles all the details
phy_start_aneg - start auto-negotiation for this PHY device
phy_enable_interrupts - Enable the interrupts from the PHY side
phy_disable_interrupts - Disable the PHY interrupts from the PHY side
phy_start_interrupts - request and enable interrupts for a PHY device
phy_stop_interrupts - disable interrupts from a PHY device
phy_stop - Bring down the PHY link, and stop checking the status
phy_start - start or restart a PHY device
phy_clear_interrupt - Ack the phy device's interrupt
phy_config_interrupt - configure the PHY device for the requested interrupts
phy_aneg_done - return auto-negotiation status
phy_find_setting - find a PHY settings array entry that matches speed & duplex
phy_find_valid - find a PHY setting that matches the requested features mask
phy_mii_ioctl - generic PHY MII ioctl interface
phy_start_machine - start PHY state machine tracking
phy_stop_machine - stop the PHY state machine tracking
phy_force_reduction - reduce PHY speed/duplex settings by one step
phy_error - enter HALTED state for this PHY device
phy_interrupt - PHY interrupt handler
phy_change - Scheduled by the phy_interrupt/timer to handle PHY changes
phy_connect - connect an ethernet device to a PHY device
phy_disconnect - disable interrupts, stop state machine, and detach a PHY device
phy_attach - attach a network device to a particular PHY device
phy_detach - detach a PHY device from its network device
genphy_config_advert - sanitize and advertise auto-negotation parameters
genphy_config_aneg - restart auto-negotiation or write BMCR
genphy_update_link - update link status in phydev
genphy_read_status - check the link status and update current link state
phy_driver_register - register a phy_driver with the PHY layer
get_phy_device - reads the specified PHY device and returns its phy_device struct
phy_prepare_link - prepares the PHY layer to monitor link status
genphy_setup_forced - configures/forces speed/duplex from phydev
genphy_restart_aneg - Enable and Restart Autonegotiation
phy_probe - probe and init a PHY device
mdiobus_register - bring up all the PHYs on a given bus and attach them to bus
mdio_bus_match - determine if given PHY driver supports the given PHY device