.\" 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 "SKB_DEQUEUE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME skb_dequeue \- remove from the head of the queue .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp struct sk_buff * skb_dequeue (struct sk_buff_head * \fIlist\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIlist\fB\fR list to dequeue from .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Remove the head of the list. The list lock is taken so the function may be used safely with other locking list functions. The head item is returned or NULL if the list is empty.