INDEX

NAME, SYNOPSIS, ARGUMENTS, DESCRIPTION, COPYRIGHT

"__DEV_GET_BY_INDEX" "9" "July 2007" "Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.22" "Network device support"

NAME

__dev_get_by_index - find a device by its ifindex

SYNOPSIS

"struct net_device * __dev_get_by_index(int " "ifindex" ");"


ARGUMENTS

ifindex

index of device

DESCRIPTION

Search for an interface by index. Returns NULLfR
if the device is not found or a pointer to the device. The device has not had its reference counter increased so the caller must be careful about locking. The caller must hold either the RTNL semaphore or dev_base_lock.

COPYRIGHT

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