net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.h

Extension

.h

Size

534 bytes

Lines

24

Domain

Networking Core

Bucket

Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy

Inferred role

Networking Core: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.

• Networking stack implementation surface: socket APIs, protocol dispatch, packet flow, routing, filtering, and network namespaces.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• linux/netdevice.h
• linux/rcupdate.h
• vport.h

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef VPORT_NETDEV_H
#define VPORT_NETDEV_H 1

#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>

#include "vport.h"

struct vport *ovs_netdev_get_vport(struct net_device *dev);

struct vport *ovs_netdev_link(struct vport *vport, bool tunnel);
void ovs_netdev_detach_dev(struct vport *);

int __init ovs_netdev_init(void);
void ovs_netdev_exit(void);

void ovs_netdev_tunnel_destroy(struct vport *vport);
#endif /* vport_netdev.h */

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `linux/netdevice.h`, `linux/rcupdate.h`, `vport.h`.
• Atlas domain: Networking Core / Sockets, Protocols, Packet Path, And Network Policy.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.