N

name field (buses), Buses

NAME variable, Input

naming, USB and Sysfs, Assigning IP Numbers

IP numbers, Assigning IP Numbers

sysfs directory tree (USB), USB and Sysfs

natural alignment of data items, Data Alignment

nbtest program, Testing the Scullpipe Driver

netif_carrier_off function, Changes in Link State

netif_carrier_ok function, Changes in Link State

netif_carrier_on function, Changes in Link State

netif_start_queue function, Opening and Closing

netif_stop_queue function, Opening and Closing, Controlling Transmission Concurrency

netif_wake_queue function, Controlling Transmission Concurrency

netpoll, Netpoll

network devices, Networking

network drivers, Network Drivers, How snull Is Designed–The Physical Transport of Packets, Connecting to the Kernel–Utility Fields, The Device Methods, Opening and Closing–Opening and Closing, The Interrupt Handler, Changes in Link State, MAC Address Resolution–Non-Ethernet Headers, Custom ioctl Commands, Statistical Information, Multicast–A Typical Implementation, Quick Reference–Quick Reference

functions, Quick Reference–Quick Reference

interrupt handlers for, The Interrupt Handler

ioctl commands, Custom ioctl Commands

kernel connections, Connecting to the Kernel–Utility Fields

link state (changes in), Changes in Link State

MAC addresses (resolution of), MAC Address Resolution–Non-Ethernet Headers

methods of, The Device Methods

multicasting, Multicast–A Typical Implementation

opening, Opening and Closing–Opening and Closing

snull, How snull Is Designed–The Physical Transport of Packets

statistics, Statistical Information

networks, Splitting the Kernel, Splitting the Kernel, Classes of Devices and Modules

interfaces, Classes of Devices and Modules

management, Splitting the Kernel

net_device structure, Device Registration, The net_device Structure in Detail–Hardware Information, Interface Information, The Device Methods

device methods of, The Device Methods

interface flags for, Interface Information

net_device_stats structure, Initializing Each Device, Statistical Information

net_init.c file, Interface Information

next method, The seq_file interface

non-Ethernet headers, Non-Ethernet Headers

non-Ethernet interfaces, Interface Information

nonblocking operations, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations, Blocking and Nonblocking Operations

nondefault attributes (kobjects), Nondefault Attributes

nonpreemption and concurrency, Concurrency in the Kernel

nonretryable requests, Nonretryable requests

nopage method, The vm_area_struct structure, Mapping Memory with nopage, Mapping Memory with nopage, Remapping Specific I/O Regions, Remapping RAM with the nopage method

mremap system call with, Mapping Memory with nopage

preventing extension of mapping, Remapping Specific I/O Regions

remapping RAM, Remapping RAM with the nopage method

normal memory zone, Memory zones

notification (asynchronous), Asynchronous Notification–The Driver's Point of View

nr_frags field, Scatter/Gather I/O

NR_IRQS symbol, Do-it-yourself probing

NuBus, NuBus

NUMA (nonuniform memory access) systems, Memory zones, The Memory Map and Struct Page

numbers, Version Numbering–Version Numbering, Major and Minor Numbers–Dynamic Allocation of Major Numbers, Printing Device Numbers, Installing an Interrupt Handler, USB and Sysfs, Physical Addresses and Pages, Assigning IP Numbers

devices (printing), Printing Device Numbers

interrupt, Installing an Interrupt Handler

IP (assignment of), Assigning IP Numbers

major and minor, Major and Minor Numbers–Dynamic Allocation of Major Numbers

PFN, Physical Addresses and Pages

root hubs (USB), USB and Sysfs

versions, Version Numbering–Version Numbering