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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:49:49 -0700
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Hi,

Maybe you didn't tell cscope to search in linux/net/core/* .
It's there, in dev.c .

~Randy

"SATHISH.J" wrote:
> 
> Hi stephane,
> 
>  I have cscope installed to search source files.
> I could not find "register_netdevice()" functionthrough it. I want to see
> where it calls the driver initialisation.
> Please help me out.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Warm regards,
> sathish.j
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Stephane List wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:35:37PM +0530, SATHISH.J wrote :
> > > Hi all,
> > > I am trying to learn network drivers. Trying to initialise the driver we
> > > call "register_netdev()". This function in turn calls
> > > "register_netdevice()". Please tell me where register_netdevice() is
> > > defined. I want to see the code because the init function of the driver is
> > > called from function only as I heard. Please tell me where
> > > "register_netdevice()" and "unregister_netdevice()" are defined in the
> > > code.
> > >
> > You can see it with :
> >
> > http://lxr.linux.no/ident?i=register_netdevice
> >
> > You can also install LXR on your own PC.