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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 7127760..9789de2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -3230,4 +3230,12 @@
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