GLDv3 MAC Registration Process

A GLDv3 device driver must perform the following steps to register with the MAC layer:

• Include the following three MAC header files: sys/mac.h, sys/mac_ether.h, and sys/mac_provider.h. Do not include any other MAC-related header file in your driver.

• Populate the mac_callbacks structure.

• Invoke the mac_init_ops() function in its _init() entry point.

• Invoke the mac_alloc() function in its attach() entry point to allocate a mac_register structure.

• Populate the mac_register structure and invoke the mac_register() function in its attach() entry point.

• Invoke the mac_unregister() function in its detach() entry point.

• Invoke the mac_fini_ops() function in its _fini() entry point.

• Link with a dependency on misc/mac:

  # ld -N"misc/mac" xx.o -o xx