Trait Interface 

pub trait Interface: DriverGeneric {
    // Required methods
    fn mac_address(&self) -> [u8; 6];
    fn create_tx_queue(&mut self) -> Option<Box<dyn ITxQueue>>;
    fn create_rx_queue(&mut self) -> Option<Box<dyn IRxQueue>>;
    fn enable_irq(&mut self);
    fn disable_irq(&mut self);
    fn is_irq_enabled(&self) -> bool;
    fn handle_irq(&mut self) -> Event;

    // Provided method
    fn wifi_control(&mut self) -> Option<&mut dyn WifiControl> { ... }
}

Core interface that network device drivers must implement.

Provides device-level operations: queue creation, interrupt management, and MAC address retrieval. Individual packet I/O goes through the queue traits (ITxQueue / IRxQueue).

Required Methods

fn mac_address(&self) -> [u8; 6]

Returns the device’s 6-byte MAC address.

fn create_tx_queue(&mut self) -> Option<Box<dyn ITxQueue>>

Create a new transmit queue. Returns None if no more queues are available.

fn create_rx_queue(&mut self) -> Option<Box<dyn IRxQueue>>

Create a new receive queue. Returns None if no more queues are available.

fn enable_irq(&mut self)

Enable device interrupts.

fn disable_irq(&mut self)

Disable device interrupts.

fn is_irq_enabled(&self) -> bool

Check whether device interrupts are currently enabled.

fn handle_irq(&mut self) -> Event

Handle a device interrupt, returning which queues have events.

Provided Methods

fn wifi_control(&mut self) -> Option<&mut dyn WifiControl>

Optional wireless control plane.

A plain wired NIC returns None (the default). A wireless device returns its WifiControl so the upper layers can drive STA/SoftAP control, link policy and out-of-band RX wake-up through the same net device model — no separate Wi-Fi device type or registration path.

Dyn Compatibility

This trait is dyn compatible.

In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety".

Implementors