<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dev_queue_xmit</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Kernel API" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Driver Support" HREF="c6227.html#AEN6229"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="unregister_netdevice_notifier" HREF="r6955.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="netif_rx" HREF="r7009.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Kernel API</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r6955.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r7009.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN6982" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >dev_queue_xmit</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN6986" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >dev_queue_xmit -- transmit a buffer </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN6989" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN6991" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >dev_queue_xmit </TT ></CODE >(struct sk_buff * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >skb</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6997" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >skb</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > buffer to transmit </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN7005" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > Queue a buffer for transmission to a network device. The caller must have set the device and priority and built the buffer before calling this function. The function can be called from an interrupt. </P ><P > A negative errno code is returned on a failure. A success does not guarantee the frame will be transmitted as it may be dropped due to congestion or traffic shaping. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r6955.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r7009.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >unregister_netdevice_notifier</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c6227.html#AEN6229" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >netif_rx</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >