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| author | Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com> | 2009-10-13 11:15:51 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-10-13 11:15:51 +0400 |
| commit | d1a890fa37f27d6aca3abc6e25e4148efc3223a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 32d5690227eb184953a86d57a3d818c9c15724de /drivers/net/Kconfig | |
| parent | b9696ea32533b3353a5390e7c34a4719512fb2a1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d1a890fa37f27d6aca3abc6e25e4148efc3223a6.tar.xz | |
net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3
Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
This patch adds driver support for VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC: vmxnet3
Guests running on VMware hypervisors supporting vmxnet3 device will thus have
access to improved network functionalities and performance.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang <ronghua@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index 712776089b46..9789de234130 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -3230,4 +3230,12 @@ config VIRTIO_NET This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. +config VMXNET3 + tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" + depends on PCI && X86 + help + This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the + module will be called vmxnet3. + endif # NETDEVICES |