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| author | Sainath Grandhi <sainath.grandhi@intel.com> | 2017-02-11 01:03:51 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-02-12 02:59:41 +0100 |
| commit | 9a393b5d5988ea4eaa3e0da138321abe0dc03a68 (patch) | |
| tree | 5a006ee32965ff9c76984aa7ce7c870d966be7ac /drivers/net/Kconfig | |
| parent | tap: Extending tap device create/destroy APIs (diff) | |
| download | linux-9a393b5d5988ea4eaa3e0da138321abe0dc03a68.tar.xz linux-9a393b5d5988ea4eaa3e0da138321abe0dc03a68.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 7 |
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 |