On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Ran Shalit <ransha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > How should we use dev_get_by_name ? > What should be the 1st parameter should it be a pointer ? (without > allocation required) ?
The network namespace you want to use. > struct net_device *dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name); > I get an exception when using it for unallocated pointer in 1st > argument, but succeeded with the following: > ndev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, "eth0"); > Is it alloweed to use init_net ? Only if you want to do a lookup in the initial network namespace. If you're in process context you better use the current network namespace. But I don't know your use case. -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
