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>Upper layer functions are called by drivers to deliver received packets
or transmission completion status back up into the network stack.</P
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>These functions are defined by the hardware independent upper layers of
the networking driver support.  They are present to hide the interfaces
to the actual networking stack so that the hardware drivers may
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This function establishes the device at initialization time.
It should be called once per device instance only, from the
initialization function, if all is well
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transmission, and zero if all was well.</P
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(see <A
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interface into buffers used by the device independent layers.</P
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(see <A
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