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1 | # |
2 | # Network device configuration | |
3 | # | |
4 | ||
d1c0a65f | 5 | menuconfig NETDEVICES |
ce2d2aed | 6 | default y if UML |
e0009820 | 7 | depends on NET |
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8 | bool "Network device support" |
9 | ---help--- | |
10 | You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to | |
11 | any other computer at all. | |
12 | ||
13 | You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that | |
14 | you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over | |
15 | telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting | |
16 | two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as | |
17 | AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. | |
18 | ||
19 | See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and | |
20 | Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | |
21 | ||
22 | If unsure, say Y. | |
23 | ||
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24 | # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat |
25 | # that for each of the symbols. | |
26 | if NETDEVICES | |
cbcd2a4c | 27 | |
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28 | config MII |
29 | tristate | |
30 | ||
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31 | config NET_CORE |
32 | default y | |
33 | bool "Network core driver support" | |
253af423 | 34 | ---help--- |
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35 | You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the |
36 | networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) | |
37 | ||
38 | if NET_CORE | |
39 | ||
40 | config BONDING | |
41 | tristate "Bonding driver support" | |
42 | depends on INET | |
43 | depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n | |
44 | ---help--- | |
45 | Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet | |
46 | Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, | |
47 | 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. | |
48 | ||
49 | The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high | |
50 | performance and high availability operation. | |
51 | ||
52 | Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more | |
53 | information. | |
54 | ||
253af423 | 55 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
88491d81 | 56 | will be called bonding. |
253af423 | 57 | |
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58 | config DUMMY |
59 | tristate "Dummy net driver support" | |
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60 | ---help--- |
61 | This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to | |
62 | this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP | |
63 | address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently | |
64 | inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. | |
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65 | If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't |
66 | enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network | |
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67 | Administrator's Guide, available from |
68 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. | |
69 | ||
70 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
9f486619 | 71 | will be called dummy. |
1da177e4 | 72 | |
88491d81 JK |
73 | config EQUALIZER |
74 | tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" | |
1da177e4 | 75 | ---help--- |
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76 | If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this |
77 | usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use | |
78 | SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone | |
79 | lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like | |
80 | one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has | |
81 | to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL | |
82 | Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. | |
1da177e4 | 83 | |
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84 | Say Y if you want this and read |
85 | <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read | |
86 | section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from | |
87 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. | |
1da177e4 | 88 | |
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89 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
90 | will be called eql. If unsure, say N. | |
91 | ||
92 | config NET_FC | |
93 | bool "Fibre Channel driver support" | |
94 | depends on SCSI && PCI | |
95 | help | |
96 | Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect | |
97 | large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and | |
98 | intended to replace SCSI. | |
99 | ||
100 | If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel | |
101 | adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your | |
102 | adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and | |
103 | "SCSI generic support". | |
1da177e4 | 104 | |
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105 | config IFB |
106 | tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" | |
107 | depends on NET_CLS_ACT | |
108 | ---help--- | |
109 | This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of | |
110 | resources. | |
1da177e4 | 111 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
88491d81 JK |
112 | will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb |
113 | device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. | |
114 | Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', | |
115 | 'ifb1' etc. | |
116 | Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc | |
1da177e4 | 117 | |
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118 | source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" |
119 | ||
b863ceb7 | 120 | config MACVLAN |
bd085b93 | 121 | tristate "MAC-VLAN support" |
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122 | ---help--- |
123 | This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to | |
124 | or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. | |
125 | ||
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126 | Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the |
127 | iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: | |
128 | ||
129 | "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" | |
130 | ||
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131 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
132 | will be called macvlan. | |
133 | ||
20d29d7a | 134 | config MACVTAP |
bd085b93 | 135 | tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" |
20d29d7a | 136 | depends on MACVLAN |
de11b0e8 | 137 | depends on INET |
9a393b5d | 138 | select TAP |
20d29d7a AB |
139 | help |
140 | This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based | |
141 | on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device | |
142 | can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type | |
c7966b52 | 143 | macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. |
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144 | |
145 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
146 | will be called macvtap. | |
147 | ||
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148 | |
149 | config IPVLAN | |
150 | tristate "IP-VLAN support" | |
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151 | depends on INET |
152 | depends on IPV6 | |
cf714ac1 | 153 | depends on NETFILTER |
4fbae7d8 | 154 | depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV |
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155 | ---help--- |
156 | This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface | |
157 | and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) | |
158 | on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 | |
159 | making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. | |
160 | ||
161 | Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the | |
f4c2b7a0 | 162 | iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: |
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163 | |
164 | "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" | |
165 | ||
166 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
167 | will be called ipvlan. | |
168 | ||
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169 | config IPVTAP |
170 | tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" | |
171 | depends on IPVLAN | |
172 | depends on INET | |
173 | select TAP | |
174 | ---help--- | |
175 | This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based | |
176 | on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device | |
177 | can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type | |
178 | ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. | |
179 | ||
180 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
181 | will be called ipvtap. | |
2ad7bf36 | 182 | |
d342894c | 183 | config VXLAN |
184 | tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" | |
c9b20a5e | 185 | depends on INET |
3ee64f39 | 186 | select NET_UDP_TUNNEL |
97e219b7 | 187 | select GRO_CELLS |
d342894c | 188 | ---help--- |
189 | This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide | |
190 | Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used | |
191 | to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. | |
192 | For more information see: | |
193 | http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 | |
194 | ||
195 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
196 | will be called vxlan. | |
197 | ||
2d07dc79 | 198 | config GENEVE |
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199 | tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" |
200 | depends on INET && NET_UDP_TUNNEL | |
2d07dc79 | 201 | select NET_IP_TUNNEL |
97e219b7 | 202 | select GRO_CELLS |
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203 | ---help--- |
204 | This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide | |
205 | Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used | |
206 | to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. | |
207 | For more information see: | |
208 | http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 | |
209 | ||
210 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
211 | will be called geneve. | |
212 | ||
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213 | config GTP |
214 | tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" | |
215 | depends on INET && NET_UDP_TUNNEL | |
216 | select NET_IP_TUNNEL | |
217 | ---help--- | |
218 | This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide | |
219 | the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol | |
220 | is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core | |
221 | network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that | |
222 | implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context | |
223 | base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This | |
224 | tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and | |
225 | 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. | |
226 | ||
227 | To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module | |
228 | wil be called gtp. | |
229 | ||
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230 | config MACSEC |
231 | tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" | |
ab2ed017 | 232 | select CRYPTO |
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233 | select CRYPTO_AES |
234 | select CRYPTO_GCM | |
97e219b7 | 235 | select GRO_CELLS |
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236 | ---help--- |
237 | MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. | |
238 | ||
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239 | config NETCONSOLE |
240 | tristate "Network console logging support" | |
1da177e4 | 241 | ---help--- |
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242 | If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. |
243 | See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. | |
1da177e4 | 244 | |
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245 | config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC |
246 | bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" | |
247 | depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ | |
248 | !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) | |
249 | help | |
250 | This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target | |
251 | parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) | |
252 | at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. | |
253 | See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. | |
1da177e4 | 254 | |
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255 | config NETPOLL |
256 | def_bool NETCONSOLE | |
83fe27ea | 257 | select SRCU |
88491d81 | 258 | |
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259 | config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER |
260 | def_bool NETPOLL | |
261 | ||
548c237c | 262 | config NTB_NETDEV |
ec110bc7 AH |
263 | tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" |
264 | depends on NTB_TRANSPORT | |
548c237c | 265 | |
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266 | config RIONET |
267 | tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" | |
268 | depends on RAPIDIO | |
269 | ||
270 | config RIONET_TX_SIZE | |
271 | int "Number of outbound queue entries" | |
272 | depends on RIONET | |
273 | default "128" | |
274 | ||
275 | config RIONET_RX_SIZE | |
276 | int "Number of inbound queue entries" | |
277 | depends on RIONET | |
278 | default "128" | |
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279 | |
280 | config TUN | |
281 | tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" | |
de11b0e8 | 282 | depends on INET |
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283 | select CRC32 |
284 | ---help--- | |
285 | TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space | |
286 | programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet | |
287 | device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, | |
288 | receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets | |
289 | via physical media writes them to the user space program. | |
290 | ||
291 | When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers | |
292 | corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above | |
293 | devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and | |
294 | all routes corresponding to it. | |
295 | ||
296 | Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more | |
297 | information. | |
298 | ||
299 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
300 | will be called tun. | |
301 | ||
302 | If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. | |
303 | ||
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304 | config TAP |
305 | tristate | |
306 | ---help--- | |
307 | This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space | |
308 | interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. | |
309 | ||
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310 | config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE |
311 | bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" | |
312 | default n | |
313 | ---help--- | |
314 | This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a | |
315 | little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a | |
316 | big-endian legacy virtio device. | |
317 | ||
318 | Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE | |
319 | and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. | |
320 | ||
321 | Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual | |
322 | machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. | |
323 | ||
e314dbdc | 324 | config VETH |
6a9a0250 | 325 | tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" |
e314dbdc | 326 | ---help--- |
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327 | This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. |
328 | When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice | |
329 | versa. | |
e314dbdc | 330 | |
88491d81 | 331 | config VIRTIO_NET |
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332 | tristate "Virtio network driver" |
333 | depends on VIRTIO | |
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334 | ---help--- |
335 | This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with | |
336 | lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. | |
337 | ||
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338 | config NLMON |
339 | tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" | |
340 | ---help--- | |
341 | This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The | |
342 | purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. | |
343 | Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink | |
344 | messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further | |
345 | diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support | |
346 | to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. | |
347 | ||
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348 | config NET_VRF |
349 | tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" | |
35402e31 | 350 | depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES |
ee15ee5d | 351 | depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV |
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352 | depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n |
353 | depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n | |
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354 | ---help--- |
355 | This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The | |
356 | support enables VRF devices. | |
357 | ||
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358 | endif # NET_CORE |
359 | ||
360 | config SUNGEM_PHY | |
361 | tristate | |
362 | ||
363 | source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" | |
364 | ||
365 | source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" | |
366 | ||
367 | source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" | |
368 | ||
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369 | source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" |
370 | ||
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371 | source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" |
372 | ||
373 | source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" | |
374 | ||
fecc7351 PB |
375 | source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" |
376 | ||
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377 | config NET_SB1000 |
378 | tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" | |
cbcd2a4c | 379 | depends on PNP |
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380 | ---help--- |
381 | This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as | |
382 | NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal | |
383 | cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable | |
384 | TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way | |
385 | downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is | |
386 | provided by your regular phone modem. | |
387 | ||
388 | At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if | |
389 | you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read | |
390 | <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how | |
391 | to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing | |
392 | a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be | |
393 | found at: | |
394 | ||
395 | <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> | |
396 | <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> | |
397 | <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> | |
398 | ||
399 | If you don't have this card, of course say N. | |
400 | ||
00db8189 AF |
401 | source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" |
402 | ||
18e635f4 JK |
403 | source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" |
404 | ||
88491d81 JK |
405 | source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" |
406 | ||
b5451d78 JK |
407 | source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" |
408 | ||
88491d81 JK |
409 | source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" |
410 | ||
88491d81 JK |
411 | source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" |
412 | ||
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413 | source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" |
414 | ||
143ee2d5 IPG |
415 | source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" |
416 | ||
1da177e4 LT |
417 | source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" |
418 | ||
0739d643 | 419 | source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" |
420 | ||
0d160211 JF |
421 | config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND |
422 | tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" | |
423 | depends on XEN | |
7003087c | 424 | select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND |
0d160211 JF |
425 | default y |
426 | help | |
f942dc25 IC |
427 | This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network |
428 | devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often | |
429 | domain 0). | |
430 | ||
431 | The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the | |
432 | CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. | |
433 | ||
434 | If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you | |
435 | should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose | |
436 | M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. | |
437 | ||
438 | config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND | |
439 | tristate "Xen backend network device" | |
440 | depends on XEN_BACKEND | |
441 | help | |
442 | This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver | |
443 | domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other | |
444 | Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating | |
445 | system that implements a compatible front end. | |
446 | ||
447 | The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the | |
448 | CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. | |
449 | ||
450 | The backend driver presents a standard network device | |
451 | endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver | |
452 | domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed | |
453 | etc in order to provide full network connectivity. | |
454 | ||
455 | If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver | |
456 | domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To | |
457 | compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module | |
458 | will be called xen-netback. | |
0d160211 | 459 | |
d1a890fa | 460 | config VMXNET3 |
e85eb117 PDM |
461 | tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" |
462 | depends on PCI && INET | |
fbdf0e28 AB |
463 | depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ |
464 | IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ | |
465 | PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) | |
e85eb117 PDM |
466 | help |
467 | This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. | |
468 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
469 | module will be called vmxnet3. | |
d1a890fa | 470 | |
658d439b TI |
471 | config FUJITSU_ES |
472 | tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" | |
473 | depends on ACPI | |
474 | help | |
475 | This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device | |
476 | on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. | |
477 | ||
95fa0405 HZ |
478 | source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" |
479 | ||
d1c0a65f | 480 | endif # NETDEVICES |