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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -0800 |
| commit | 47871889c601d8199c51a4086f77eebd77c29b0b (patch) | |
| tree | 40cdcac3bff0ee40cc33dcca61d0577cdf965f77 /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
| parent | c16cc0b464b8876cfd57ce1c1dbcb6f9a6a0bce3 (diff) | |
| parent | 30ff056c42c665b9ea535d8515890857ae382540 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index e023682be2c..3141dd3b6e5 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -666,6 +666,14 @@ config VIRTIO_CONSOLE help Virtio console for use with lguest and other hypervisors. + Also serves as a general-purpose serial device for data + transfer between the guest and host. Character devices at + /dev/vportNpn will be created when corresponding ports are + found, where N is the device number and n is the port number + within that device. If specified by the host, a sysfs + attribute called 'name' will be populated with a name for + the port which can be used by udev scripts to create a + symlink to the device. config HVCS tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support" |