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| author |   Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> | 2007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700 |
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| committer |   Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-07-18 08:47:45 -0700 |
| commit | 0d160211965b79de989cf2d170985abeb8da5ec6 (patch) | |
| tree | 968bc01a0e7fe75b6e274d8958b04fc1d9afa3a7 /drivers/net/Kconfig | |
| parent | xen: add virtual block device driver. (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-0d160211965b79de989cf2d170985abeb8da5ec6.tar.xz linux-dev-0d160211965b79de989cf2d170985abeb8da5ec6.zip | |
xen: add virtual network device driver
The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to access network
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
network device driver.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Cc: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index 43d03178064d..5fb659f8b20e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -2486,6 +2486,18 @@ source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" +config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND + tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" + depends on XEN + default y + help + The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to + access network devices exported exported by a virtual + machine containing a physical network device driver. The + frontend driver is intended for unprivileged guest domains; + if you are compiling a kernel for a Xen guest, you almost + certainly want to enable this. + config ISERIES_VETH tristate "iSeries Virtual Ethernet driver support" depends on PPC_ISERIES |