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Take a completed network device structure and add it to the kernel
interfaces. A NETDEV_REGISTER message is sent to the netdev notifier
chain. 0 is returned on success. A negative errno code is returned
on a failure to set up the device, or if the name is a duplicate.
Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. See the comment at the end of Space.c for details about the locking. You may want register_netdev instead of this.
The locking appears insufficient to guarantee two parallel registers will not get the same name.
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