Chapter 3 : Network Device Driver

Write a Linux kernel module to implement a network device driver; Use below APIs

alloc_netdev_mqs
register_netdevice

struct net_device_ops ndd_dev_ops = {
        .ndo_open               = ndd_open,
        .ndo_stop               = ndd_stop,
        .ndo_uninit             = ndd_uninit,
        .ndo_start_xmit         = ndd_start_xmit,
        .ndo_set_rx_mode        = ndd_set_multicast_list,
        .ndo_set_mac_address    = ndd_change_mac,
        .ndo_select_queue       = ndd_netdev_select_queue,
        .ndo_get_stats64        = ndd_get_stats64,
};

unregister_netdevice

register_netdevice_notifier
unregister_netdevice_notifier

register_inetaddr_notifier
register_inet6addr_notifier

unregister_inetaddr_notifier
unregister_inet6addr_notifier

netif_carrier_on
netif_carrier_off

netif_wake_subqueue
netif_start_subqueue
netif_stop_subqueue

netif_tx_start_all_queues
netif_tx_stop_all_queues

netif_addr_lock_bh
netif_addr_unlock_bh

Write a Linux network device driver which implements a SKB Queue * Perform insertion, deletion of a node into this SKB queue via /proc * Perform display of this SKB queue via /proc

__skb_queue_head_init
skb_queue_head
skb_queue_tail
skb_dequeue
__skb_unlink
__skb_queue_purge

skb_queue_len
skb_get_queue_mapping
skb_queue_is_last
skb_queue_walk
skb_queue_walk_safe
skb_queue_next
skb_queue_empty
skb_queue_splice_init
skb_queue_splice_tail_init
skb_peek
skb_peek_tail
skb_list_walk_safe

skb_mark_not_on_list
kfree_skb_list

Write a Linux network device driver to perform SKB operations to transmit & recieve a packet

dev_alloc_skb
skb_reserve
skb_pull
skb_put
skb_put_data
skb_put_zero
skb_push
skb_trim
skb_tailroom
skb_clone
skb_cloned
skb_copy
skb_headroom
skb_set_mac_header
skb_set_network_header
skb_set_transport_header
skb_reset_mac_header

netif_receive_skb
netif_rx