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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-08 21:21:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-08 21:21:04 +0100 |
| commit | 988addf82e4c03739375279de73929580a2d4a6a (patch) | |
| tree | 989ae1cd4e264bbad80c65f04480486246e7b9f3 /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-rmk/samsung6' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux into dev... (diff) | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/amit/virtio-console (diff) | |
| download | linux-988addf82e4c03739375279de73929580a2d4a6a.tar.xz linux-988addf82e4c03739375279de73929580a2d4a6a.zip | |
Merge branch 'origin' into devel-stable
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.c
arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.h
sound/soc/pxa/pxa-ssp.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 e023682be2c4..3141dd3b6e53 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" |