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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 712776089b46..9789de234130 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -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