.\" This documentation was generated from the book titled "The Linux Kernel API", which is part of the Linux kernel source. .\" .\" This documentation comes with the following legal notice: .\" .\" This documentation is free software; you can redistribute .\" it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public .\" License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either .\" version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later .\" version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be .\" useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied .\" warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .\" See the GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public .\" License along with this program; if not, write to the Free .\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, .\" MA 02111-1307 USA .\" .\" For more details see the file COPYING in the source .\" distribution of Linux. .\" .\" For comments on the formatting of this manpage, please contact Michael Still .\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "DEV_ADD_PACK" "9" "13 April 2004" "" "" .SH NAME dev_add_pack \- add packet handler .SH SYNOPSIS .sp \fB .sp void dev_add_pack (struct packet_type * \fIpt\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIpt\fB\fR packet type declaration .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Add a protocol handler to the networking stack. The passed &packet_type is linked into kernel lists and may not be freed until it has been removed from the kernel lists. .PP This call does not sleep therefore it can not guarantee all CPU's that are in middle of receiving packets will see the new packet type (until the next received packet). .SH "ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT" .PP This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.1.