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diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 5762370ed43c..583f66cd5bbd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -25,18 +25,32 @@ menuconfig NETDEVICES
# that for each of the symbols.
if NETDEVICES
-config IFB
- tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
- depends on NET_CLS_ACT
+config NET_CORE
+ default y
+ bool "Network core driver support"
---help---
- This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
- resources.
+ You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the
+ networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.)
+
+if NET_CORE
+
+config BONDING
+ tristate "Bonding driver support"
+ depends on INET
+ depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
+ ---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.
+
+ The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high
+ performance and high availability operation.
+
+ Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more
+ information.
+
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
- will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb
- device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module.
- Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0',
- 'ifb1' etc.
- Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc
+ will be called bonding.
config DUMMY
tristate "Dummy net driver support"
@@ -57,23 +71,59 @@ config DUMMY
Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0',
'dummy1' etc.
-config BONDING
- tristate "Bonding driver support"
- depends on INET
- depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
+config EQUALIZER
+ tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
---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.
+ 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
+ lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like
+ one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has
+ to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL
+ Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e.
- The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high
- performance and high availability operation.
+ Say Y if you want this and read
+ <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read
+ section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from
+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
- Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more
- information.
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called eql. If unsure, say N.
+
+config NET_FC
+ bool "Fibre Channel driver support"
+ depends on SCSI && PCI
+ help
+ Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect
+ large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and
+ intended to replace SCSI.
+
+ If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel
+ adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your
+ adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and
+ "SCSI generic support".
+config MII
+ tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support"
+ help
+ Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external
+ or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your
+ ethernet card lacks MII.
+
+source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig"
+
+config IFB
+ tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
+ depends on NET_CLS_ACT
+ ---help---
+ This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
+ resources.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
- will be called bonding.
+ will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb
+ device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module.
+ Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0',
+ 'ifb1' etc.
+ Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc
config MACVLAN
tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
@@ -102,24 +152,46 @@ config MACVTAP
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called macvtap.
-config EQUALIZER
- tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
+config NETCONSOLE
+ tristate "Network console logging support"
---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
- lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like
- one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has
- to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL
- Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e.
+ If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
+ See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
- Say Y if you want this and read
- <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read
- section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
+config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
+ bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
+ depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
+ !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
+ help
+ This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
+ parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
+ at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
+ See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
- will be called eql. If unsure, say N.
+config NETPOLL
+ def_bool NETCONSOLE
+
+config NETPOLL_TRAP
+ bool "Netpoll traffic trapping"
+ default n
+ depends on NETPOLL
+
+config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+ def_bool NETPOLL
+
+config RIONET
+ tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
+ depends on RAPIDIO
+
+config RIONET_TX_SIZE
+ int "Number of outbound queue entries"
+ depends on RIONET
+ default "128"
+
+config RIONET_RX_SIZE
+ int "Number of inbound queue entries"
+ depends on RIONET
+ default "128"
config TUN
tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
@@ -151,6 +223,28 @@ config VETH
When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
versa.
+config VIRTIO_NET
+ tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
+ ---help---
+ 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.
+
+endif # NET_CORE
+
+config SUNGEM_PHY
+ tristate
+
+source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
+
config NET_SB1000
tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
depends on PNP
@@ -175,52 +269,26 @@ config NET_SB1000
If you don't have this card, of course say N.
-source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
-
-config MII
- tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support"
- help
- Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external
- or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your
- ethernet card lacks MII.
-
source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
-config SUNGEM_PHY
- tristate
-
-#
-# Ethernet
-#
-
-source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
-
source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
+source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
+
source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
+source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
+
source "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig"
+source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
+
source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
-source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
-
source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
-source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
-
config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
depends on XEN
@@ -260,67 +328,6 @@ config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
will be called xen-netback.
-config RIONET
- tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
- depends on RAPIDIO
-
-config RIONET_TX_SIZE
- int "Number of outbound queue entries"
- depends on RIONET
- default "128"
-
-config RIONET_RX_SIZE
- int "Number of inbound queue entries"
- depends on RIONET
- default "128"
-
-config NET_FC
- bool "Fibre Channel driver support"
- depends on SCSI && PCI
- help
- Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect
- large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and
- intended to replace SCSI.
-
- If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel
- adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your
- adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and
- "SCSI generic support".
-
-config NETCONSOLE
- tristate "Network console logging support"
- ---help---
- If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
- See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
-
-config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
- bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
- depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
- !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
- help
- This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
- parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
- at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
- See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
-
-config NETPOLL
- def_bool NETCONSOLE
-
-config NETPOLL_TRAP
- bool "Netpoll traffic trapping"
- default n
- depends on NETPOLL
-
-config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
- def_bool NETPOLL
-
-config VIRTIO_NET
- tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
- ---help---
- 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 && INET