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authorShreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700
commitd1a890fa37f27d6aca3abc6e25e4148efc3223a6 (patch)
tree32d5690227eb184953a86d57a3d818c9c15724de /drivers/net/Kconfig
parentb9696ea32533b3353a5390e7c34a4719512fb2a1 (diff)
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>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
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@@ -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