<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >unregister_netdevice</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="netdev_finish_unregister" HREF="r7260.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="8390 Based Network Cards" HREF="x7314.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="r7260.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x7314.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN7286" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >unregister_netdevice</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN7290" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >unregister_netdevice -- remove device from the kernel </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN7293" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN7295" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >unregister_netdevice </TT ></CODE >(struct net_device * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dev</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN7301" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dev</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > device </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN7309" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > This function shuts down a device interface and removes it from the kernel tables. On success 0 is returned, on a failure a negative errno code is returned. </P ><P > Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. See the comment at the end of Space.c for details about the locking. You may want <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >unregister_netdev</TT > instead of this. </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="r7260.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="x7314.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >netdev_finish_unregister</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" >8390 Based Network Cards</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >