From d1a890fa37f27d6aca3abc6e25e4148efc3223a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shreyas Bhatewara Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:15:51 -0700 Subject: net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3 Ethernet NIC driver for VMware's vmxnet3 From: Shreyas Bhatewara 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 Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3