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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 46 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index c7d310ef1c83..9a49c4c2316b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menuconfig NETDEVICES default y if UML depends on NET bool "Network device support" - ---help--- + help You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to any other computer at all. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config MII config NET_CORE default y bool "Network core driver support" - ---help--- + help You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ config BONDING tristate "Bonding driver support" depends on INET depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n - ---help--- + help Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ config BONDING config DUMMY tristate "Dummy net driver support" - ---help--- + help This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ config WIREGUARD_DEBUG config EQUALIZER tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" - ---help--- + help If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ config IFB tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" depends on NET_CLS_ACT select NET_REDIRECT - ---help--- + help This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of resources. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" config MACVLAN tristate "MAC-VLAN support" - ---help--- + help This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ config IPVLAN tristate "IP-VLAN support" depends on INET depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 - ---help--- + help This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ config IPVTAP depends on IPVLAN depends on INET select TAP - ---help--- + help This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ config VXLAN depends on INET select NET_UDP_TUNNEL select GRO_CELLS - ---help--- + help This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ config GENEVE depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL select GRO_CELLS - ---help--- + help This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ config GTP tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" depends on INET select NET_UDP_TUNNEL - ---help--- + help This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core @@ -295,12 +295,12 @@ config MACSEC select CRYPTO_AES select CRYPTO_GCM select GRO_CELLS - ---help--- + help MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. config NETCONSOLE tristate "Network console logging support" - ---help--- + help If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ config TUN tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" depends on INET select CRC32 - ---help--- + help TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, @@ -365,14 +365,14 @@ config TUN config TAP tristate - ---help--- + 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 - ---help--- + help This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a big-endian legacy virtio device. @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE config VETH tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" - ---help--- + help This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice versa. @@ -394,13 +394,13 @@ config VIRTIO_NET tristate "Virtio network driver" depends on VIRTIO select NET_FAILOVER - ---help--- + help This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. config NLMON tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" - ---help--- + help This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink @@ -414,14 +414,14 @@ config NET_VRF depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n - ---help--- + help This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The support enables VRF devices. config VSOCKMON tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" depends on VHOST_VSOCK - ---help--- + help This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If unsure, say N. @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ source "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" config NET_SB1000 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" depends on PNP - ---help--- + help This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable |