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

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 43d03178064d..5fb659f8b20e 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