From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: [MACVLAN]: Update Kconfig to refer to iproute Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:51:35 +0100 Message-ID: <47C2D5F7.4070503@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030103010709070303040807" Cc: Linux Netdev List To: "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from viefep20-int.chello.at ([62.179.121.40]:48539 "EHLO viefep20-int.chello.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754667AbYBYOvk (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:51:40 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030103010709070303040807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------030103010709070303040807 Content-Type: text/plain; name="x" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="x" [MACVLAN]: Update Kconfig to refer to iproute Since the macvlan release I had at least 5 users asking how to configure it since the old userspace tool doesn't work with the version in the kernel. Add a pointer to the Kconfig help. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index f337800..f333c11 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ config MACVLAN This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. + Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the + iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: + + "ip link add link [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called macvlan. --------------030103010709070303040807--