register_netdev

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Description

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.

This is a wrapper around register_netdev that takes the rtnl semaphore and expands the device name if you passed a format string to alloc_netdev.