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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-07-18 08:47:45 -0700
commit0d160211965b79de989cf2d170985abeb8da5ec6 (patch)
tree968bc01a0e7fe75b6e274d8958b04fc1d9afa3a7 /drivers/net/Kconfig
parent9f27ee595038653ddf8bca871200d39247d6f4fc (diff)
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
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diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 43d03178064..5fb659f8b20 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