unregister_netdevice_queue(9)

unregister_netdevice_queue9

Remove device from the kernel

Usage

void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device * dev, struct list_head * head);

Arguments

dev

device

head

list

Overview

This function shuts down a device interface and removes it from the kernel tables. If head not NULL, device is queued to be unregistered later.

Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. You may want unregister_netdev instead of this.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.