dev_mc_add_excl(9)

🎀 dev_mc_add_excl(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the dev_mc_add_excl(9) page — yes, the manual name is Kernel API Manual, and this whole thing is about adding an address. It’s short, it’s iconic, let’s go. 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

dev_mc_add_excl — Add a global secondary multicast address

🛠️ SYNOPSIS 🛠️

int dev_mc_add_excl (struct net_device *dev , const unsigned char *addr
);

🧾 ARGUMENTS 🧾

Two arguments, both kind of a big deal:

• dev — device
• addr — address to add

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

This one is chillin’ in the kernel file ./net/core/dev_addr_lists.c, and here are all the related pages it’s linking arms with. Don’t skip ’em, bestie:

• __hw_addr_sync_dev(9)
• __hw_addr_ref_sync_dev(9)
• __hw_addr_ref_unsync_dev(9)
• __hw_addr_unsync_dev(9)
• __hw_addr_list_snapshot(9)
• __hw_addr_list_reconcile(9)
• dev_addr_flush(9)
• dev_addr_init(9)
• dev_addr_add(9)
• dev_addr_del(9)
• dev_uc_add_excl(9)
• dev_uc_add(9)
• dev_uc_del(9)
• dev_uc_sync(9)
• dev_uc_sync_multiple(9)
• dev_uc_unsync(9)
• dev_uc_flush(9)
• dev_uc_init(9)
• dev_mc_add(9)
• dev_mc_add_global(9)
• dev_mc_del(9)
• dev_mc_del_global(9)
• dev_mc_sync(9)
• dev_mc_sync_multiple(9)
• dev_mc_unsync(9)
• dev_mc_flush(9)
• dev_mc_init(9)
• netif_uc_promisc_update(9)
• __dev_set_rx_mode(9)
• netif_rx_mode_sync(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./net/core · date: October 2026 · page: dev_mc_add_excl(9). byeee 🫶✨