tap: tap as an independent module

This patch makes tap a separate module for other types of virtual interfaces, for example,
ipvlan to use.

Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi <sainath.grandhi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index a993cbeb9e0c..5763503fe4e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ config MACVTAP
         tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver"
         depends on MACVLAN
         depends on INET
+        select TAP
         help
           This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
           on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device
@@ -287,6 +288,12 @@ config TUN
 
           If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
 
+config TAP
+        tristate
+        ---help---
+          This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space
+          interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality.
+
 config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE
         bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels"
         default n